Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Spotted hyena redux

Spotted hyena redux
Voting period ends on 11 Mar 2019  at 19:47:21 (UTC)
 * Reason:Like most of Charles' work, the only real thing worth criticising are a comparison between the ideal image and the vagaries of the natural world and its refusal to pose for rhe camera, the blighter. I think this one is particularly good: whilst the lower legs and paws can't be seen, the key species-identifying traits are all visible, and the flower field is visually engaging. Crop is maybe slightly tighter than ideal, but by no means unacceptable. Renomination from Featured picture candidates/Spotted hyena
 * Articles in which this image appears:Spotted hyena, Hyena
 * FP category for this image:WP:Featured pictures/Animals/Mammals
 * Creator:Charles J. Sharp (is that your preferred credit, Charles?) (yes, thanks)


 * Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 6.4% of all FPs 19:47, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Support. MER-C 21:52, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Question – Is this a male or a female? They know, but we don't... ;-) --Janke | Talk 13:21, 2 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Support Thanks for the renomination Adam Cuerden. Having had a good look in the right place, he's a male. Charlesjsharp (talk) 15:19, 2 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Stupid question, but how do you tell a female hyena's pseudopenis from a male's actual penis? Or did you look elsewhere? Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 6.4% of all FPs 21:46, 2 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Well, you quickly admit you had never heard of a pseudopenis and go back to "don't know"! Charlesjsharp (talk) 21:52, 2 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Yeah, spotted hyenas are... a special case. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 6.4% of all FPs 22:06, 2 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Support per nom, good quality and EV. Mattximus (talk) 17:00, 2 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Support -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:27, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Support - DreamSparrow  Chat   04:58, 7 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Oppose. While I appreciate the image quality and difficulty of capturing the subject in a quite natural setting, to me the absence of most of the legs and the feet precludes this on encyclopaedic grounds. That's some important parts of the animal completely missing. Quite worthy on Commons, but not for WP. --jjron (talk) 09:46, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Support – Yann (talk) 15:51, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 21:05, 11 March 2019 (UTC)