I’m a wildlife rehabilitator. All of the animals I treat are born wild. Many of my patients are first photographed after they’ve been captured for treatment, and have visible signs that they are captive (caging, patient ID tags, bedding, etc.). I posted a lot of my patients, especially ones that m…

Sounds like you’re doing everything right, but in this volunteer organization people are always going to be making mistakes. I’m sorry. It’s really frustrating. Perhaps you can tag or message other observers to vote “wild” for your observations and get past the erroneous “captive” votes. (I cou…

[image] earthknight: Many people make an ID or mark something a certain way and never respond to other comments on the post or direct communication. this kind of thing is common on iNat and apparently one reason, based on watching friends use the site, is that many people use the app to do ID…

If you can actually provide the original sighting data (location, time, date) then there is no pressing reason why these couldn’t work as regular observations, i.e. not captive/casual. Photos of the individual in captivity don’t discount the observation itself from being “wild” – you just need the c…

Right, i don’t see how it’s any different (in terms of iNat protocol) than the common occurrence of me taking plant samples or being given plant samples to identify. Yes they are often dried, or pressed, and are ‘captive’ in my hand or under a scope but… I map them with the date and location they ar…

[image] kiwifergus: To me it is a fault in the design of the system, in that it allows identifiers to make IDs and DQAs via the Identify thumbnails page where they are not reviewing all of the available information. Surely the description should be a “must see” in terms of any evidence regarding…

We can pretty much always identify within a few hundred meters, of where the animals were taken from in the wild and confiscations in this case are not from pet trade, they’re from poachers and generally take place a few hours after the poaching event. Often as the poachers are returning from the f…

[image] kiwifergus: it allows identifiers to make IDs and DQAs via the Identify thumbnails page where they are not reviewing all of the available information. Surely the description should be a “must see” in terms of any evidence regarding the observation? ? On the Identify page, I have to b…

My apologies, I thought it could be done on the thumbnails.

You’re right. These animals shouldn’t be marked “captive.” However, this kind of error is one of the costs of a volunteer organization, where people don’t necessarily understand the system. Hopefully this cost is outweighed by the good (lots of data at low cost) but it can be frustrating. You an…

[image] sedgequeen: Is it possible to flag the observation for curation and ask for an override? Should the possibility be added? Curators can not ‘override’ the input of another user. We have no ability to edit or delete DQA votes or any other input from a user. All we can do is vote as well…

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silversea_starsong October 12, 2019, 6:16pm 23

This sounds promising but I don’t think it would change much. People seeing a cat will tick captive + domestic anyway, if they normally mark them captive/cultivated.

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