Hi everyone, I’ve stumbled upon a Harbor porpoise washed up on the beach, and would like to INat it as I think it could be useful to researchers (?) but I don’t want someone scrolling through to maybe get upset by the image (not graphic, just a little sad). Is there a way to hide the image either f…

I agree with this! Sometimes I like to look through species tags just to see cute pictures, and while I get that dead animals are important observations, it can still be pretty sad to see dead animals.

For right now definitely put it up and then add “dead” to the annotations on the side.

I post some mangled road-killed mammals, and I agree they can upset viewers. Therefore, I make the first photo as harmless as I can, one of two ways. (1) Crop the photo to show only a small, undamaged part of the animals. Don’t worry that it can’t be identified; it’s just a protection for viewers…

What I do sometimes is putting the first picture in greytones, as I think it takes away a lot of the gruesomness, like in this observation (carefull, fitting to the topic it is a dead animal and the 2nd coloured picture is ot nice https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/62047573

I have seen people put a warning message as the first image. ‘Warning! Image of dead animal’ or such like. Personally I would only do this if it was a particularly nauseating image.

[image] matthewvosper: a warning message as the first image Problem with that approach is that the message image then becomes a part of the image pool for that species (or other taxon), and potentially available for CV training etc. I think cropping and/or masking parts of the first image is…

Yes, you should definitely post it! These types of data are definitely valuable (as someone who used to do marine mammal stranding work). Some of the suggestions here are good approaches: Cropping out gore on the first image. Posting a photo from far away that still contains the organism as the fi…

Yes I agree, not the best approach, but I can envisage situations where it may be the least worst. I don’t think it would affect the CV training though as the image would be such an outlier. It would end up going to GBIF etc which is not great, but also not the end of the world unless it happened …

No matter how disgusting an image of a dead animal may be you should always upload them because these observations can be very valuable for research.

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