Another topic got me thinking about the individuality of organisms and I was thinking about all the different birds and mammals that I “knew” like the sapsucker family I saw a bunch over the summer, or the squirrel that always slept on this one sign near my family’s cabin. But then I started thinkin…

The most famous and the saddest example that immediately springs to mind is the case of a number of so-called “confident” Marsican brown bears in and around the Abruzzo National Park. Attracted by access to easy food, some of the bears have started frequenting local villages where they have become a…

Now I’m thinking about what unwitting individual gray squirrel or mallard has been observed by the most people and has hundreds of inat posts just to themselves

There is a rather well known Bur Oak /Quercus macrocarpa in Akron called the Signal Tree; the legend goes that local indigenous tribes used the tree as a marker for the portage between the Cuyahoga river and the Tuscarawas river. https://metro-parks.medium.com/history-and-mystery-of-the-indian-signa…

The monkeys in Japan that visit hot springs are fairly famous

I never saw him, and I don’t think he has been seen for a few years, but for several years “Alfonso” was a semi famous Mandarin Duck on the Nelson Lakes. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?lat=-41.795019160217905&lng=172.8171408176422&place_id=any&radius=15.143386791331094&subview=map&taxon_i…

One of the things I love about the UK is its cultural fixation with nature and animals. It doesn’t always manifest in ways that seem, at least to a rube from the colonies, environmentally informed or entirely humane. Take, for example, the case of Benson the carp , whose death generated significant o…

[image] hihi: Maybe organisms that you know but especially organisms that multiple people have observed on iNaturalist Going through observations in the Dominican Republic, I lost count of how many waterlily observations had the location as the Botanic Gardens in Santo Domingo.

We had a relatively well-known Gorilla called Bokito .

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