Annotating preserved specimens

[jdmore]

@papernautilus

@cthawley

The best practice is generally to mark as “captive” if the location of the observation is in the collection itself - the organism was taken captive and moved to the location because of a human’s intention (not the organism’s own movement or a natural process).

This is foolishness. I caught this scorpion in my bathroom. It was captured but it wasn’t a captive organism.

I think you misunderstood the context of the post you quoted, which had to do with dead, preserved specimens in a museum collection, not a wild animal found inside a dwelling.