How did the observation of Gerald the Muskrat go viral on inaturalist? I recently came across the observation of Gerald the Muskrat and after waiting 5 minutes for it to load and I was shocked by the amount of ID’s it had and I was wondering how it got so many Id’s.

How did the observation of Gerald the Muskrat go viral on inaturalist?

mws November 8, 2019, 9:07pm 2

Members of the iNaturalist discord server talk about it a lot, but I’m not sure how it spread to those outside of the server

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