[image] [image] [image] I have seen some strange names in iOS app. Why do I see the Czech name for red hartebeest? And why is B. angloensis show as a common name?

[image] parker_hopkins: My guess is that Roland Morisse’s default country (S. Africa) defaults to Czech? It may also be a user setting to default to Czech and because there are often no Czech common names written in for species, many of his observation’s common names default to English. Scienti…

[image] parker_hopkins: My guess is that Roland Morisse’s default country (S. Africa) defaults to Czech? There is no nation to language relationship established anywhere in iNaturalist. Names seen by users are solely driven by their settings, not those of the person who entered the content. W…

All my settings are English only.

Thanks for the clarification. You learn something new every day.

Hi Andrew, there have been a few changes to names in the apps over the past year. Are you still running into this issue with the updated app?

still get it occasionally [IMG_1194]

Strange names when exploring in ios

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jwidness January 13, 2021, 2:37pm 8

This is another species_guess problem, see also here and here.

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Strange names when exploring in ios

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