There was a deer in my school a few weeks ago: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/327570231
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Was it “Buck to School” week?
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I guess so! He was a little early though, school didn’t start for another hour.
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That’s insane 
I wish stuff like that happened at my school
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One thing about this thread is, it’s humbling
Like trying to refine State of matter Life
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/state-of-matter-life-clean-up/
You’re used to being the natural history expert in your circle. “Apparently nobody knows what this is, but let me take a crack at it. It might be something I’ve seen before.”
And then . . . “No clue!”
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hhahha true
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whos that
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Click at your own risk.
Seriously, click at your own risk
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I was on my school computer…. 
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I just realized I never uploaded one of my weirdest iNat moments from long time ago. So I just did for this thread 
I was finishing up some field work and was on my way back to base when I saw a roe deer crossing my path and walking into a bush just some meters in front of me.. it had not seen me it seemed. So I followed it quietly hoping for a nice photo opt. But what I saw when I looked behind the bush let me freeze my breath - there was someone sitting in the meadow, reading and the dear was trying to figure out if this person meant danger. I had the camera ready and this person - obviously annoyed as to why I was trying to get such a sneaky picture - raised their book higher to their face to hide it.. this is the photo that I ended up using, as we have strikt rights of ones own picture in Germany.
I called it “blind to the world” and always thought how ironic it was that this person might have wanted some quite time out in nature sitting in a meadow, but then missed the most exciting thing (they did not see the roe deer until it disappeared and I never explained the situation)… see, this kind of thing was even possible before smart phones where such a big deal (I personally did not own one until many years later)
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that’s a great photo! the curious deer, the obscured face, the landscape… wow!
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Inevitably ass mold gets more attention than a leg or a tail. No doubt it is all the donkey enthusiasts.
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I’ve seen a leg, I’ve seen a tail, but I had never seen an ass mold.
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Sure it’s inevitable. it’s the instinct xD
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I could narrow down some of them, but since a lot were vague (I couldn’t tell what the ob was for), I couldn’t get much farther than “Instead of plants, vascular plants” for most things ;)
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Not my observation, but I love that this life form is this person’s only observation, with the caption “Looking to identify what this Socotran fisherman is holding. Caight on an overnight shark fishing trip, even he hadn’t seen them before.”
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In my defense, I am a little sensitive to body parts without a body. Also, ass mold could mean a couple different things. Was relieved that in this case it meant what I guessed it might.
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Thank you for this thread! I didn’t realise I hadn’t actually uploaded the first thing that came to mind (and a bunch of others from the trip), so that’s fixed now 
Initially I thought we were looking at some kinda weird horn-eating fungus, but nope: Horn moths! Related to clothes moths, they feed on keratin and construct tube-like protective casings on the horn surface from silk and their own frass.
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