# Marking Exotic Animals as Captive When They're Clearly Not

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**Created:** [August 23, 2025, 1:33am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/marking-exotic-animals-as-captive-when-theyre-clearly-not/69264 "2025-08-23T01:33:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![earthknight](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/earthknight/32/32879_2.png) [@earthknight](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/earthknight)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2025, 7:54am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/marking-exotic-animals-as-captive-when-theyre-clearly-not/69264/7 "2025-08-23T07:54:57Z")

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I’d suggest looking through the many times this topic has been discussed in the past to avoid rehashing old arguments:

- [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/survey-about-criteria-for-wild-captive-observations/27007](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/survey-about-criteria-for-wild-captive-observations/27007)
- [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/wild-vs-captive-cultivated-gray-areas/39882](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/wild-vs-captive-cultivated-gray-areas/39882)
- [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/options-for-the-best-way-to-handle-non-established-obs-e-g-escaped-released-pets/16684/33](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/options-for-the-best-way-to-handle-non-established-obs-e-g-escaped-released-pets/16684/33)
- [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/trees-that-were-planted-but-growing-in-wild-should-be-considered-wild-and-additional-grade-for-grey-zone-is-required/26777/18](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/trees-that-were-planted-but-growing-in-wild-should-be-considered-wild-and-additional-grade-for-grey-zone-is-required/26777/18)
- [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/wild-vs-cultivated-for-escaped-garden-plants/30432/2](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/wild-vs-cultivated-for-escaped-garden-plants/30432/2)
- [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/reporting-wildlife-trade-on-inaturalist-captive-wild/45335/10](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/reporting-wildlife-trade-on-inaturalist-captive-wild/45335/10)
- and quite a few more

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