Automated video analysis is critical for wildlife conservation. A foundational task in this domain is multi-animal tracking (MAT), which underpins applications such as individual re-identification and behavior recognition. However, existing datasets are limited in scale, constrained to a few species, or lack sufficient temporal and geographical diversity - leaving no suitable benchmark for training general-purpose MAT models applicable across wild animal populations. To address this, we introduce SA-FARI, the largest open-source MAT dataset for wild animals. It comprises 11,609 camera trap videos collected over approximately 10 years (2014-2024) from 741 locations across 4 continents, spanning 99 species categories. Each video is exhaustively annotated culminating in ~46 hours of densely annotated footage containing 16,224 masklet identities and 942,702 individual bounding boxes, segmentation masks, and species labels. Alongside the task-specific annotations, we publish anonymized camera trap locations for each video. Finally, we present comprehensive benchmarks on SA-FARI using state-of-the-art vision-language models for detection and tracking, including SAM 3, evaluated with both species-specific and generic animal prompts. We also compare against vision-only methods developed specifically for wildlife analysis. SA-FARI is the first large-scale dataset to combine high species diversity, multi-region coverage, and high-quality spatio-temporal annotations, offering a new foundation for advancing generalizable multianimal tracking in the wild. The dataset is available at https://www.conservationxlabs.com/sa-fari.

翻译：自动化视频分析对野生动物保护至关重要。该领域的基础任务是多动物追踪（MAT），其为个体重识别和行为识别等应用提供支撑。然而，现有数据集在规模上受限，仅涵盖少数物种，或缺乏足够的时空多样性——目前尚无适用于训练跨野生动物种群的通用MAT模型的合适基准。为此，我们推出SA-FARI，这是目前最大的开源野生动物MAT数据集。该数据集包含11,609段相机陷阱视频，采集时间跨度约10年（2014-2024年），覆盖4大洲的741个地点，涵盖99个物种类别。每段视频均经过详尽标注，总计约46小时的高密度标注影像，包含16,224个掩码标识、942,702个独立边界框、分割掩码及物种标签。除任务专用标注外，我们还公开了每段视频的匿名化相机陷阱地理位置信息。最后，我们基于SA-FARI使用最先进的视觉语言模型（包括SAM 3）建立了全面的检测与追踪基准测试，并通过物种专用提示词和通用动物提示词进行评估。同时，我们还与专为野生动物分析开发的纯视觉方法进行了对比。SA-FARI是首个融合高物种多样性、多区域覆盖和高质量时空标注的大规模数据集，为推进野外通用多动物追踪研究提供了新基础。数据集可通过https://www.conservationxlabs.com/sa-fari获取。