Currently, iNat treats domestic animals as a subspecies of the main wild species. Although from a genetic point of view this makes sense, it muddles the data of the wild species. For example, the Muscovy Duck is a species native to Central and South America and there aren’t any wild populations outs…

On iNat it makes sense to treat the domesticated forms as separate species for practical reasons. However, in the case of serious systematics, each case should be treated separately. Different animals, different history of domestication, changes during its course, relationships with wild counterpart…

Grouping Domestic Animals with their Non-domestic Counterparts

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pisum March 3, 2022, 2:26am 4

just add a (low rank) lrank=species filter parameter.

also see https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-use-inaturalists-search-urls-wiki-part-1-of-2/63.

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Grouping Domestic Animals with their Non-domestic Counterparts

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