Humans are introduced by human means! [image] Was this always a thing? Only now have I seen this. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/309681925

the simple answer is that users can add any taxon to checklists for places and add establishment means for them. In this regard, Homo sapiens is no different to any other taxon in iNat, and it can be added to any checklist and have its establishment means edited. This is what has happened here in al…

Maybe not appropriate for the platform, but damn that’s funny! They aren’t wrong, mind you. :joy:

Apparently, Humans are considered native to Africa, Asia, Oceania, South America, and even Antarctica and Greenland, but not North America or Europe. It’s quite tempting to interpret this as some kind of a satirical joke… :upside_down_face:

But still, even a human in one of the places where they, sorry we, are considered native, would be introduced by human means, right?

Evolutionarily speaking: no, not really.

That’s pretty funny. I can’t imagine a situation where humans arrived anywhere aside from anthropogenic means. Maybe extreme weather, or being picked up by a large animal.

I knew about the checklist thing, I used it to mark a bunch of Hawaiian land snail spp. as endemic. I never thought about adding humans to the checklist though XD

Yeah, but we still end up in a particular place because of human, self, intervention.

I’d say humans should get 3 or 4 exclamation marks, because they’re worse than any knotweed or wild carrot I’ve ever seen. It’s so fun talking about my own species in the 3rd person.

I would count humans as introduced naturally where we migrated voluntarily, and introduced by anthropogenic means where we were forced to migrate by slave trade, war, or the like.

[image] bazwal: Apparently, Humans are considered native to Africa, Asia, Oceania, South America, and even Antarctica and Greenland, but not North America or Europe. What sense does this make?

Humans listed as an introduced species

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raymie August 29, 2025, 12:02pm 17

Humans are arguably both native and introduced to every place they occur, as they got thir under their own power, but their own power is still anthropogenic means.

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