/r/animalid
This subreddit helps users identify animal species from pictures, videos, audio or calls, tracks, dens, scat, etc. All ID requests should include the animal's LOCATION (country, state, city, name of ocean or coast). This sub is NOT for identifying breed info for cats/dogs or identifying insects/parasites. Comments should be helpful or educational only, and advice should be legal and humane. Welcome!
Have a picture of an animal you need identified? Post it here and let the collective consciousness of reddit ID it for you!
It is best if you have a picture, if not, a good description. Provide a location if you have a picture or not.
Found an animal in trouble? Follow this link for instructions!
Rules
1. ID Posts Only
The primary purpose of all posts should be to identify the species of animal in a photo, video, or audio file. Other posts with no ID request will be removed.
2. Posts must have a location provided in the title!
State or province at least, or country if it's small enough to provide a similar level of geographic precision. It is also helpful to include the type of environment your animal is in; forest, suburb, near a lake or river, etc.
3. No "Bugs"
"Bug" in the colloquial sense of "terrestrial arthropod" - insects, arachnids, and other creepy crawlies. While these are animals, they're very abundant and require specialized knowledge. Post them in /r/whatsthisbug for better ID!
4. No Breed Requests
This group is for identifying an animal's species. Breed ID requests for domestic animals will be removed. Post them in /r/cats, /r/DoggyDNA, /r/IDmydog, or a subreddit dedicated to your animal's species.
5. No Violence or Animal Abuse
This group believes in respecting the dignity of nonhuman animals. Violent or abusive comments are not tolerated. In the event dispatching an animal is warranted a poster may be tactfully encouraged to seek a professional for humane euthanasia. Subsistence hunters are welcome here, but refrain from making comments that would be more appropriate for /r/hunting.
Included in this rule are posts with animals stuck in sticky traps or killed by your unsupervised outdoor pet (does not apply to barn cats or livestock guardian dogs).
6. Low-effort and sensationalist comments will be removed at moderator discretion.
This is primarily an educational subreddit. If your comment is a joke, meme, or includes words like "vicious" or "bloodthirsty" it is likely to be removed.
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What could have made this? [Targovishte, Bulgaria]
Very remote private hunting land. No cars or vehicles have gone through for a long time. All of this is along old tractor tracks, but these are not tire marks. There's fallen trees on the path, but these markings go around and under them. Area is known for Red and Roe Deer, European Hare, Wild Boar, Fox, Coyote, etc - everything but a very rare bear sighting.
11:08 UTC
fox or coyote? [Wisconsin]
Apologies for the video quality. There also appears to be a second one in back (pair of eyes)
09:49 UTC
What is this? [Western Australia]
09:46 UTC
what animal tracks are these? [colorado]
Not a very good photo but can’t seem to figure what animal made these.
08:19 UTC
What is this animal? [North Wisconsin]
03:16 UTC
Are these real crabs or AI? (Probably US)
00:42 UTC
What animal left this scat? Bear? [Quebec/Vermont border]
Largish animal scat found near house in countryside. Many sunflower seed from birdfeeder (and yes, our birdfeeder has been raided in the past).
22:41 UTC
Found some tracks, maybe moose? [colorado]
Next to them are my horses front feet tracks. Llamas live on the property and so does a cow but they rarely go that far back in the bush cause it’s not well maintained, steep, and snowy with little grass. Moose have been in the area in the past few months and elk and deer are around sometimes.
21:27 UTC
Are these tadpoles? [norcal]
There are dead mosquitos on top, but what are the swimmers moving in the water?
20:32 UTC
What is making this sound? [SC]
19:56 UTC
Identify this snake [Arizona]
Found dead on road.
18:35 UTC
Mystery Snake [Northern Virginia]
18:19 UTC
Can someone identify this “dropping”? [Folly Beach SC]
(Charleston, SC near Folly Beach. It’s the second dropping - the first mound left was three times the size of this shown. )
18:00 UTC
[SW Florida] ID on fetus and organs
Found on a walk along a canal. Grey fur was found aprox 30 yards away.
18:00 UTC
[Ontario] What's going on here?
Ontario near Lake Huron in a forest. It looked like wing marks to me so I assumed maybe Owl. But then I kicked up the snow only to find po*py that looked like it was maybe from fox or a similar animal. What do you think left these tracks?
17:40 UTC
Raven or crow? [Boston MA]
He was alone and very big
17:10 UTC
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