We’ve been looking at human selfies for years now, and I’m sure everyone can admit that they’re becoming a little stale. That’s why a team of American researchers paired up with the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania to place automated cameras throughout the park, in hopes of capturing snapshots of the wild animals that live there. According to the BBC, the project was able to capture hundreds of thousands of shots of animals migrating throughout the Serengeti’s great planes.

There were over 100,000 wildebeest sightings, and up to 70,000 snaps of zebras passing in front of the motion-sensitive cameras. On more rare occasions, the cameras captured images of elusive animals like the aardwolf and the zorilla.

Dr. Ali Swanson, of the University of Minnesota, worked with a team to place 225 cameras across over 1000 square kilometers of the National Park, attached to trees and metal posts. The cameras were triggered by infrared and motion sensors, snapping three shots each time an animal crossed its path.

In addition to collecting ecological information about the animals of the Serengeti, the project was also designed to help a new computer system recognize patterns in vast pools of data. The 1.2 million photo events captured by the camera network will surely be more than enough data for the program to sort.

The photos identified more than 322,000 animals, spread out between 48 different species. There were many surprising events captured in the photos, like a group of lions harassing and killing cheetahs to try and steal their food. The team also observed hyenas chewing through the cameras, and even elephants ripping them down and throwing them across the ground.

The project has now classified up to 1.9 million burst events, with up to 300,000 additional events still waiting to be examined on the SD cards of the cameras. This will be the last batch of photos, unfortunately, as the project has just run out of funding.