Unfortunately I’ve noticed this as well.
I don’t mind the ones where the animal is obviously captive e.g. some GloFish, but it is frustrating to see people uploading photos of themselves and friends and IDing them as “Naked Mole Rat” or “American Eel”. As a student myself I would be lying if I said these weren’t a little bit funny, but it is frustrating. Recently there was a high school in southern California that I am assuming had to make iNat accounts for science class as at least 15 accounts reposted images of their goldfish and guppy tanks. I’m not sure if this falls under copyright infringement as TECHNICALLY the images are not identical but it is frustrating nonetheless. I usually just mark them as captive and move on. Should I be flagging these? What about the ones with frivolous IDs?
@graysquirrel Apologies if this isn’t quite the same as the issue you are describing