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I have selected to observe the Serengeti ecological area through the use of the Zooniverse project, a platform for “people powered research”. The landscape of Serengeti National Park varies from woodlands to savannah to grasslands. Also, the climate ranges from warm and dry with a rainy period from March to May.
Further, this resource utilizes camera trap images and has been used in various publications. I will be utilizing the Snapshot Serengetti project to form a hypothesis focusing on the feeding behaviours of organisms.
Questions,
- Which organisms feed in groups (>2 individuals) and which graze individually?
- Does the presence of other animals from different species have an effect on whether or not an organism graze indvidually?
- Are there patterns that are species-specific?
Looking for more specifics on your study site, your climate and vegetation descriptions are very general. Is March to May is the timing you expect to do your study. Also, still expect you to have a field journal. Your questions are quite general, remember you need an environmental gradient and as you work from questions to narrowing in on a hypothesis you need something with both a piece and a pattern. For example, asking about which animals feed in different sized groups is more of a function of natural history characteristics of the species and you need to relate to environmental conditions.
Also please remember to tag/categorize me so I can find your posts easily