I just noticed this today, but why on Observations · iNaturalist are humans marked as “Wild” and considered “Introduced” in the US? It seems wrong for many reasons. Is there a way to remove that?

Flag it on the taxon page. All ‘humans’ are Casual by definition on iNat.

wild =/= verifiable casual =/= not wild Given that iNat has two possibilities (wild or captive/cultivated), it seems less problematic for humans to be sorted under “wild” than under “captive” (while still remaining casual). I don’t know if it would be possible for them to be treated as neither “wi…

[image] DianaStuder: Flag it on the taxon page Flagged it. This might need to be done through more than a flag though. You can literally separate “Wild” Observations · iNaturalist humans and “Captive” Observations · iNaturalist humans. Grouping human observations into “Wild” and “Captive” i…

We were asked not to choose Wild or Not Wild for humans. They are all Casual due to iNat’s decision. Introduced or Native should not be an available option.

Some users have learned that “not wild” makes observations casual and therefore they use it for any observation that they think should not be eligible for RG (duplicates, bad data, etc.). I think this is probably the reason why observations of humans get marked as such – either the users do not real…

I moved the above posts to a new, separate topic and titled as best as I could since they weren’t directly related to the original thread which focused on human observations in schools.

From an anthropological perspective – humans are introduced in the New World, Europe, and Asia, albeit self-introduced and some anthropologists argue we are domesticated, again self-domesticated.

[image] yayemaster: Flagged it. Thanks @yayemaster . I left a supporting comment there ( https://www.inaturalist.org/flags/764416 ).

Many observations of humans are marked as captive because they are actually observations of manmade objects. One person sees a plant in a pot, marks it not wild and moves on. Another person realizes the plant is actually plastic and identifies it as Homo sapiens.

Human Observations with Wild/Captive/Introduced/Native statuses

General

Topic		Replies	Views
Way too many observations of wild organisms getting marked as captive General	18	1473	October 6, 2022
Would there ever be a situation where an observation labeled as "Human" would be anything other than "Casual"? General	26	390	April 23, 2026
Survey about criteria for wild/captive observations General survey	46	1691	December 14, 2021
What to do when a user indiscriminately marks every observation of a certain species as captive? General	23	1059	May 13, 2025
What to do when someone posts an observation of something like a house pet? General question	24	1306	July 12, 2021

Human Observations with Wild/Captive/Introduced/Native statuses

Related topics