Should roadkill domestic dog be considered research grade?

[papernautilus]

The whole concept of organisms “in captivity” is bizarre and, frankly, pretty useless. I was recently told that “The best practice is generally to mark as “captive” if the location of the observation isn’t the collection itself - the organism was taken captive and moved to the location because of a human’s intention (not the organism’s own movement or a natural process).”

In other words, anything captured in a dredge, or a plankton net or a seine is considered a “captive” because it has been moved by human agency. Even a butterfly net would be iffy. Tiny organisms that have to be taken to a laboratory to be examined under a microscope would also be “captives.”

[cthawley]

For other readers, the conversation being referenced here is in this thread:
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/annotating-preserved-specimens/59883/7
and is a bit misrepresented. It is clearly explained in the linked thread that observations with photos taken of organisms when held captive for documentation, but marked with the time and date of the original observation, should not be considered captive but wild on iNat as is covered explicitly in iNat’s guidelines on how to interpret captive/wild: https://help.inaturalist.org/en/support/solutions/articles/151000169932-what-does-captive-cultivated-mean-

That said the situation described by the OP here doesn’t involve an organism pictured obviously in captivity (rather the opposite), so it’s probably best to keep the thread focused on that situation.