Is a dead animal evidence for the animal that killed it?

[bouteloua]

yes, it can be evidence of the organism on iNat

[jeanphilippeb]

Note that a photo of artificial plant is identified as “Homo sapiens” because it is proof of the existence of a human organism who brought there (observation location) the artificial plant.

[DianaStuder]

I took Evidence of human to mean - this plastic plant was made by humans.

The DQA says - Evidence of Organism.
It doesn’t say either The organism, or An organism - so iNat is not clear whether or not organism refers to the ID or the evidence. And iNatters are using either or both, depending on how we interpret it.

We need 2 DQAs for 2 situations

• no evidence of Life, any Life. Obs is not suitable for iNat. Push to Casual (ie junk)
• no evidence for the identified taxon. Stays in Needs ID. Keep trying.

[jasonhernandez74]

@david99

In this case, people often people assume that a dead bird they find was killed by a cat in the absence of any evidence to the contrary. Someone could have found a dead bird in their yard and just assumed a cat killed it.

Maybe they have been conditioned to do so by all the rhetoric about cats.

[sedgequeen]

Maybe they have been conditioned to do so by having a cat that is known to kill birds. Or having a neighbor’s cat kill birds in their yard.