LF: Let’s do some Citizen Science!

Citizen Science is when scientists invite the general public help them with their research.  The public may not be experts in science, but we can help by looking at pictures online and labelling them by saying what we see.  (It’s a task that computers are not very good at but people are.)

Snapshot Serengeti has thousands of photos taken by camera traps in Africa and scientists want us to help say which animals we see, how many there are, whether there are any young and what the animals are doing.

• Here’s the link: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/zooniverse/snapshot-serengeti
• Click “”Get started”
• Click on “Tutorial” if you need instructions
• When you click on an animal name – it will show you, so you know if you have chosen the right one – if you haven’t – “cancel”  You could click through the animals first to see what they are – Gazelle (Thompson’s) is quite a common one.

How many animals can you find…?