Mystery Animal
I’ve been slogging through some field data today, when this mysterious critter crawled across my screen. These are the only shots we got – check out those zebra-stripey tube socks in the first image and the strange feathery texture. Who here knows what we snapped a pic of?
Snapshot Serengeti 
A researcher in a cool jumper and stripey socks? Or is it a vulture eating a zebra? Hopefully not a vulture eating a researcher with stripey socks?!
Ostrich butt?
The mystery animals animals are always fun. Turtle? Pangolin? Not quite!
well, it looks complicated. The first picture shows what looks like the head of a hyena clamped on to a dead zebra. The vertical stripy thing is the wing of a vulture, seen from the back, in all three photos. A great photo sequence!
The only thing I can think of besides the vulture/zebra interaction would be an EXTREME close up of a snake sliding over part of the camera equipment. The belly scutes could look like feathers from the right angle.
Could this be a crocodile eating one of the legs of a Zebra
We believe it is a hyena eating a dead zebra and a vulture joining in.
Looks like a vulture. I think the stripe that look like a zebra leg are actually folds in the neck of the vulture with the light hitting it interestingly.
I wondered if it could be an extreme closeup of a slug?
At first I thought it may be a snake with the stripes being a rib cage of a meal, but now think it’s a bird and the ‘ribs’ are the opposit wing – showing the underside of the feathers!?
Ah, no one guessed okapi yet? 🙂
No one guessed okapi I see, until now 🙂
It definitely looks like a zebra being devoured by something like a Hyena (1st photo) and perhaps a vulture (the wing in all photo’s).