Kind of evidence of organism presence observed. Please suggest more options in the comments!

Datatype: text
Allowed values:
organism seen 8274
organism heard 17
scat 139
tracks 313
nest 37
partial remains 114
feeding sign 50
gall 61
shell 279
home 5
Created by: kueda kueda
Values:

Observations specifying this field

Observation Evidence type

Photos / Sounds

What

Small Striped Wolf Spiders (Genus Artoria)

Observer

hhodgson

Date

April 29, 2024 11:41 AM SAST
organism seen

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What

Coppice Heath (Erica articularis)

Observer

hhodgson

Date

April 29, 2024 11:39 AM SAST
organism seen

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What

Goldreeds (Genus Elegia)

Observer

hhodgson

Date

April 29, 2024 11:38 AM SAST
organism seen

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What

King Protea (Protea cynaroides)

Observer

hhodgson

Date

April 29, 2024 02:13 PM SAST
organism seen

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What

Rhombic Skaapsteker (Psammophylax rhombeatus)

Observer

hhodgson

Date

April 29, 2024 02:56 PM SAST
organism seen

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What

Bells (Genus Roella)

Observer

hhodgson

Date

April 29, 2024 11:43 AM SAST
organism seen

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What

Manyleaf Sorrel (Oxalis polyphylla)

Observer

hhodgson

Date

April 29, 2024 11:43 AM SAST
organism seen

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What

Rock Malachite (Ecchlorolestes peringueyi)

Observer

hhodgson

Date

April 29, 2024 11:55 AM SAST
organism seen

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What

Rock Malachite (Ecchlorolestes peringueyi)

Observer

hhodgson

Date

April 29, 2024 11:54 AM SAST
organism seen

Photos / Sounds

What

Rock Malachite (Ecchlorolestes peringueyi)

Observer

hhodgson

Date

April 29, 2024 11:52 AM SAST
organism seen

Photos / Sounds

What

Rock Malachite (Ecchlorolestes peringueyi)

Observer

hhodgson

Date

April 29, 2024 11:50 AM SAST
organism seen

Photos / Sounds

What

Rock Malachite (Ecchlorolestes peringueyi)

Observer

hhodgson

Date

April 29, 2024 11:50 AM SAST
organism seen

Photos / Sounds

What

Rock Malachite (Ecchlorolestes peringueyi)

Observer

hhodgson

Date

April 29, 2024 11:48 AM SAST
organism seen

Photos / Sounds

What

Rock Malachite (Ecchlorolestes peringueyi)

Observer

hhodgson

Date

April 29, 2024 11:48 AM SAST
organism seen

Photos / Sounds

What

Rock Malachite (Ecchlorolestes peringueyi)

Observer

hhodgson

Date

April 29, 2024 11:47 AM SAST
organism seen

Photos / Sounds

What

Rope Capespray (Struthiola ciliata)

Observer

hhodgson

Date

April 29, 2024 11:29 AM SAST
organism seen

Photos / Sounds

What

Mastreeds (Genus Mastersiella)

Observer

hhodgson

Date

April 29, 2024 11:27 AM SAST
organism seen

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What

Broadleaf Conebush (Leucadendron gandogeri)

Observer

hhodgson

Date

April 29, 2024 11:26 AM SAST
organism seen

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What

Goldreeds (Genus Elegia)

Observer

hhodgson

Date

April 29, 2024 11:25 AM SAST
organism seen

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What

Paraseeds (Genus Ursinia)

Observer

hhodgson

Date

April 29, 2024 11:18 AM SAST
organism seen

Photos / Sounds

Observer

hhodgson

Date

April 29, 2024 11:14 AM SAST
organism seen

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What

Restiads (Family Restionaceae)

Observer

hhodgson

Date

April 29, 2024 11:13 AM SAST
organism seen

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What

Flower Crab Spiders (Genus Thomisus)

Observer

hhodgson

Date

April 29, 2024 11:29 AM SAST
organism seen

Photos / Sounds

What

Rope Capespray (Struthiola ciliata)

Observer

hhodgson

Date

April 29, 2024 11:28 AM SAST
organism seen

Photos / Sounds

What

Cat's-Ears (Genus Hypochaeris)

Observer

hhodgson

Date

April 29, 2024 11:27 AM SAST
organism seen
organism seen

Photos / Sounds

What

Blombushes (Genus Metalasia)

Observer

hhodgson

Date

April 29, 2024 11:24 AM SAST
organism seen

Photos / Sounds

What

Broadleaf Conebush (Leucadendron gandogeri)

Observer

hhodgson

Date

April 29, 2024 11:24 AM SAST
organism seen

Photos / Sounds

What

Ridgestem Ragwort (Senecio pubigerus)

Observer

hhodgson

Date

April 29, 2024 11:23 AM SAST
organism seen

Photos / Sounds

What

Snakethistles (Genus Cullumia)

Observer

hhodgson

Date

April 29, 2024 11:22 AM SAST
organism seen
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Comments

How about galls?

Posted by beartracker about 7 years ago

Could include gall. Can you think of a more generlized way to express this phenomenon that would include other parasite-induced features like galls, bot fly lesions, etc.? Or is it worth keeping such things separate?

Posted by kueda about 7 years ago

It might be worth keeping it separate since it gives more detailed categories.

Posted by beartracker about 7 years ago

Alright, I added "gall" if you want to use it.

Posted by kueda about 7 years ago

Thanks! I'll use it.

Posted by beartracker about 7 years ago

what about feathers? Here is an example observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/35500991

Posted by mkkennedy over 3 years ago
Posted by mkkennedy over 3 years ago

I would classify feathers as "partial remains." Shell would kind of fit in that too, though if it did merit an additional value here it would have to be well-defined. Does that include egg shells? What about arthropod exuvia?

Posted by kueda over 3 years ago

For shells & exuvia, partial remains sort of works, though another term might be better. Hard remains? Cover bones, shells & exuvia. Or how else to state ir? Partial implies not whole, but also not specific. Bone/shell/exuvia imply durable traces that may suggest presence at some point in past, possibly nearby but may have been moved (by collector/predator/weather/water). So has different implications for the observation than the other terms.

Posted by clauden over 3 years ago

I have used "carcass" as a sort of cover-all term to include any remains when they were not easy to classify. That may not be too accurate in my part though.

Posted by beartracker over 3 years ago

here is a definition from BODC (British Oceanographic Data Centre) for 'shell'
http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/S12/current/S1239/

Posted by mkkennedy over 3 years ago

i have a few observation photos of beaver lodges - should there be new vocab terms for 'homes' such as lodges or burrows that are separate from nests? example https://inaturalist.ca/observations/10684050

Posted by mkkennedy over 3 years ago

I think I'm just going to start adding things people request and stop worrying about semantics. That's what annotations are for. Curators, feel free to edit this field as you see fit.

Posted by kueda over 3 years ago

@kueda, here are my thoughts:
(1) The "Skulls & Bones" project is one example of folks who specifically want bones, not partial remains or bones with tissues attached. I would vote for a separate category for bones.
(2) Likewise, the "Found Feathers" project is only interested in bird feathers, not bones, not other animal remains. Also, if feathers are categorized as "partial remains", that suggests to me the bird was dead, which isn't necessarily the case, if the bird was just molting.
(3) The "partial remains" category could then be for multiple tissue types (e.g., bones, hair, skin, internal organs, etc.)
(4) Since you allow multiple entries for this Annotation, one could add several categories, as applicable, e.g., bones, feather
(5) Would you like to add "smelled organism" to include skunk/fox scent? (see the values for the "How was this detected?" field.
(6) Would it be possible to map the "How was this detected?" field to the "Evidence Type" annotation, similar to how the "Observation field: Alive (AOR), Dead (DOR), or Injured (IOR)" observation field maps into the "Alive or Dead" annotation? If that can be done automatically, hundreds or thousands of current observations could have an auto-updated "Evidence Type" annotation.
Thanks for creating this new annotation. It will be very helpful.

Posted by truthseqr almost 3 years ago

@truthseqr, there's an extensive conversation about Evidence of Presence at https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/new-annotation-evidence-of-presence/23945, so I encourage you to add your thoughts there. We can map certain observation field values to annotations, presuming there is a good semantic match (e.g. "scat" matches exactly, but "Found remains" is ambiguous).

Posted by kueda almost 3 years ago

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