Is it allowed to post taxidermied animals, from museum collections? In this case, I assume these posts must be marked as not wild, correct?

it’s technically allowed, but certainly discouraged; iNaturalist is meant to be for “individual encounters with nature”, and taxidermied animals are only borderline natural in most identifiers’ minds. I certainly see a number of museum specimens uploaded to iNaturalist but as you correctly suggest, …

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-should-taxidermy-observations-be-treated/54987 Here is link to a past forum discussion

The other replies summarize it well, but if you’re looking for a way to log organisms you’ve seen at places like museums I recommend creating a list instead of uploading them as observations. For example, I have my own list: https://www.inaturalist.org/lists/4473560-Captive-Cultivated-Observations

The previous replies already answered the question very well so I won’t needlessly reiterate what they have already said. The one thing I have seen sometimes that didn’t get brought up is people posting photos that were taken by the museum. It’s cool that they’re interested in knowing what they’re l…

This is the most excellent advice I’ve ever seen given when people ask about sharing captive, museum etc observations for personal logging. Hadn’t even realise this could be an option. Not so related to this, but obviously many people do want to do personal logging of sightings with captive, zoo, m…

In case you end up deciding to post some taxidermy specimens, here is a project you can share them with: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/taxidermy-mounted-preserved-specimens

IDing an obs of taxidermy. Dead. Captive. Location and date at the museum. That observer at the museum is engaging with the ‘museum experience’ not the pre-taxidermy specimen. Unless the obs is by the collector - with the date and location of collection. And we would still rather see the live /…

If the observation has the location and time where the animal was killed or found dead, this is more or less acceptable. It’s certainly acceptable if you are the person who killed/found it. If the location and/or date are where/when you photo’d the animal after it was mounted, that is a human prod…

If the observer is the one who collected/killed/found the animal, then posting a taxidermy photo is perfectly fine, and it can even be RG if it’s marked with the date and location where it was originally found. If it’s someone else’s specimen/preparation, it can’t be RG, because -the observer only …

Is taxidermy allowed?

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claudiomartins April 11, 2025, 12:34am 5

Thank you, but that’s not the case. I was identifying and found several posts of taxidermied animals, so I’d like to know how to deal with that.

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Is taxidermy allowed?

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