I had some time over this weekend and came up with a list of situations that come up often where the dividing line between wild and captive/cultivated can be ambiguous As it stands, escaped animals and self-spreading plants are considered wild on iNaturalist. However, what about the following edge …

Another gray area: Humans themselves, id’ed as the species Homo sapiens, are frequently being marked as captive/cultivated. This has the unfortunate result/unintended consequence that instead of being swept into just the humans-casual pile, they also become more easily visible to anyone using the Ca…

-livestock that are free-roaming and aren’t bound by fencing or pens – captive. They are there because people put them there and are more or less keeping them there, though the “cage” is large. -ALL diseases and parasites, whether on captive or wild plants/animals – wild -cats or birds (pigeons, …

I have an observation of a starfish unintentionally in an aquarium that has the biggest DQA war I’ve ever seen, currently captive but hoping to turn the tables.

[image] neontetraploid: -livestock that are free-roaming and aren’t bound by fencing or pens That pretty much depends on the local context. In Canada ranchers often have the right to graze their cattle on Crown (government/public) land. Often the herd is released in the spring and left to its…

[image] neontetraploid: -captive-release animals that constantly stay in the vicinity of the release site For animals that were rehabilitated wild animals or animals that were deliberately bred to be released, I would count them as wild.

When they are raised by wolves :smile: :laughing:

All humans are considered wild on iNat, except prisoners or hostages.

Humans who don’t interact globally? Maybe Sentinelese ?

This whole “intended to be there/or not” argument is bizarre, and is too difficult to prove one way or the other. Unless someone is Eliza Thornberry and can talk to animals, there’s no way to know with certainty. In the case of escaped/released pets, we have no way of differentiating whether someth…

Wild vs. Captive/Cultivated Gray Areas

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observerjosh March 8, 2023, 7:09pm 19

Under what circumstances should a human be considered wild?

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