[image] Let's Talk Annotations OK, iNaturalist now has an Alive or Dead annotation for observations within Animalia . The possible values for this annotation are: Alive - meaning that evidence shows the organism is alive and shows no signs of imminent death. Dead - meaning that evidence shows th…

[image] bazwal: It depends on which groups you look at most Yes. And it depends on whether or not you know how to tell the sexes apart. With dragonflies, I can tell it’s alive and adult, but not whether it’s male or female. (I can’t identify most dragonflies to species, but I have been ann…

No they don’t have the value they could, filtering “dead” doesn’t show you how many weren’t annotated with “dead”, while if all observations have annotations the system really works.

[image] treichard: Thus it would be best to annotate these records with Alive, but another user may see a dead insect in the photo and think it should be marked Dead. I’d probably say Alive since you didn’t come across a dead one. To me, and I should stress I’m not a researcher, the Dead anno…

That sounds like an argument for improving the filter options, rather than for requiring that all observations have annotations.

I figured that the change had to do with some people being upset by seeing images of dead animals. I volunteer with an organization that advocates for migratory birds, and during migration seasons I and other volunteers collect both dead and injured birds that have collided with buildings. (The liv…

I still don’t know why new annotation won’t have own graphics, it can show some interesting info on certain groups.

The problem is that there is no way of differentiating observations of dead animals which haven’t been tagged as dead from alive animals unless the alive tag is used. I know you can filter by “not Dead” but that’s not the same as alive unless every dead animal is annotated (which there is no way of …

[image] zabdiel: If someone wants only alive animals filtering by the alive tag should provide them that Well, yes, of course - but that doesn’t have much practical value at the moment. There are currently 29.7 million observations on iNat, but only about 37500 of those have an Alive annotati…

Submissions of leaves of trees ? The tree that produced it is alive, the leaf is dead. My assumption is that it would get the alive marker, but open to feedback.

Plants can’t currently be annotated as dead/alive. If they could be I would annotate as alive if I was certain the tree was alive* as the annotation applies to the whole organism rather than part of it. A feather was given as an example which could be annotated as "impossible to tell’ rather than de…

Annotating animals as alive

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Annotating animals as alive

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