/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.
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.
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.
Related subreddits:
/r/animalid
Heβs very slow with a short tail
It was barking (?) for like 5-7 minutes and I could hear something running through the brush in the woods. I finally got up to see what was causing all the racket and my camera flash accidentally turned on while recording so it stopped almost immediately.
Iβm guessing a dog, coyote or fox or something like that?
Any ideas what kind of skull this is that my husband found in the woods today while shed hunting?
If anyone knows of a different group that would be better to post in, be sure to let me know.
Ohio, USA
Central Texas
Hi, I saw these little clear guys swimming one night on the intercostal in Okaloosa Florida. There were hundreds of them.
Hoping to find out what they are.
Found this gift left in front of my stoop this morning. At first I thought it might be someone's loose dog or a coyote, but it appears full of seeds. Thinking it might be a black bear? I'm on the edge of the suburban to rural transition and have had neighbors seen a couple in the last year.
Bird my wife snapped a picture of while stuck in traffic on the way to work. Any help?
Edit: Geographic location
Edit 2: if you don't know the location put [Unknown] or [Facebook] or [Social Media] or whatever.
Put a location in the title or I'm going to beat you up and take your lunch money. I have no idea why this wasn't a rule already but it is now.
If anyone knows how to make automod enforce a specific title format let me know! I'd like locations to be included in [square brackets] and have automod remove posts that don't have them.
As said in the title, pretty sure this is a coyote. I live near some wooded areas, and we get all sorts of wildlife wandering around. At least once a week I see deer in my yard. Please excuse the mess on the driveway, doing some landscaping work.
Found this horn in the mud. just outside of Baltimore, Maryland- eastcoast US.
It was found while hiking Sitton Peak near Ortega highway in Orange County. My best guess is coyote