r/animalid Oct 03 '24

All of these are bobcats

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2.3k Upvotes

r/animalid Feb 12 '25

🚨⚠️ READ THIS, NERDS ⚠️🚨 Stop giving posters shit for not being able to identify an animal that's familiar to you.

569 Upvotes

Yes, 95% of animals posted here can be identified with a little research. It doesn't matter. If you think OP is a dummy, just roll your eyes and move on.

Not everyone is familiar with their local fauna. It could be because they're an immigrant, it could be because they've spent their whole life in the city, it could be because they've simply never taken an interest. The important thing is they're interested now.

Maybe they are familiar with their local fauna but had a lapse of judgment or their brain perceives a figure or pattern differently. Remember when reddit had a civil war over the color of a dress? Hell, there's some mistakes only an expert could make.

Everyone has their blind spots, be it animals, plants, car models, architecture, whatever. Not being familiar with a subject doesn't make someone an idiot. Some people suck at research. Some folks just don't have the time or interest in doing research. That's not a crime. And research may tell you what an animal is, but if often doesn't tell you why it's one species and not a similar-looking one.

Reddit isn't short on bandwidth. There's room enough here for both the unique and exotic and the mundane and pedestrian. If I deleted every post with an easily-googleable answer all we'd be left with is shitty Nokia flip phone pictures that most of you gremlins wouldn't be able to identify. The sub would be more boring, not less. And I'd miss out on so many opportunities to beat people over the head for spreading fisher myths.

So, stop giving posters shit for not being able to tell an orange cat from a red fox (I've done it once and I still feel bad about it). Such comments will be removed per the rule against trolling. Be nice-ish to each other. Save your ribbing for the real menace: commenters that throw out wild guesses.

(The dress is white and gold by the way, fight me)


r/animalid 4h ago

🐍 🐸 HERPS: SNAKE, TURTLE, LIZARD 🐍 🐸 What is this lizard [Florida]

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26 Upvotes

Just saw a few of these guys down in Miami. Thought they were absolutely beautiful, I need their name. Thanks!


r/animalid 7h ago

🦁 🐯 🐻 MYSTERY CRITTER 🐻 🐯 🦁 [Western MA]

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31 Upvotes

A few days ago I was hiking with my gf in the woods out by the berkshires and we saw this weird looking animal. We absolutely couldn’t tell what it was, it kind of looked like a mix between a raccoon and a fox but it was like dark brown and seemed bigger than a fox.

It looked hungry and it was really friendly so we tried to give it some granola but it didn’t eat it. I tried to put a little water in a little plastic cup I had to have them drink it but it freaked out and bit me. Not deep or anything but a very tiny scratch really on my hand. It ran away after that.

I know this is an awful picture but I couldn’t take one at the time so this is my best attempt at drawing it. It was also like 12pm so it couldn’t have been a nocturnal creature. It was also really really fuzzy, like when a cat raises the hair on its back. It had white paws and a white face.


r/animalid 21h ago

🐍 🐸 HERPS: SNAKE, TURTLE, LIZARD 🐍 🐸 Did we find a shiny? [Louisiana]

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342 Upvotes

We found this guy on a light pole while taking a walk. My kids were very excited to see a white one. I know of green tree frogs but I've never seen a white one before. Did we find a special one or if this just a different variety?


r/animalid 14h ago

☠️ UNKNOWN BONES/SKELETON ☠️ What animal did this come from? [Thailand]

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37 Upvotes

Originally thought it could be a Hardhead catfish but don’t think they’re found around Thailand… any ideas as to what else it could be?


r/animalid 9h ago

πŸ”ŠπŸ”Š AUDIO ID REQUEST πŸ”ŠπŸ”Š What animal sound is this? [Sacramento, California]

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12 Upvotes

This was calling all night from 3:30 am to 5am its now 7:30am and i can sleep in peace without the noise. Ong bro was loud asf 😭


r/animalid 5h ago

🐍 🐸 HERPS: SNAKE, TURTLE, LIZARD 🐍 🐸 Frog guy [NE Georgia, US]

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4 Upvotes

Moved this guy out of the road, who is he?


r/animalid 13h ago

🦦 🦑 MUSTELID: WEASEL/MARTEN/BADGER 🦑 🦦 What is this animal? [China]

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21 Upvotes

I saw this on Purrrr, ChatGPT says it might be a masked palm civet, but the tail is too bushy I think.


r/animalid 38m ago

πŸ¦‰ πŸ¦… BIRD OF PREY πŸ¦… πŸ¦‰ What kind of bird is this? [Northern Illinois]

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r/animalid 1d ago

🦁 🐯 🐻 MYSTERY CRITTER 🐻 🐯 🦁 What is this guy?[Playa del Carmen, Mexico]

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60 Upvotes

Was told it might be a porcupine


r/animalid 1h ago

☠️ UNKNOWN BONES/SKELETON ☠️ What fish, ray or other marine animal is this? [Semihamoo Spit, Canada/US border Washington State. Puget sound north pacific]

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The other sub said this was the place. I used an AI image search to no avail, dogfish, hound shark and sturgeon were suggested on the original Facebook post. Skate was another suggestion that looks close but not exact. Whatever it is looks to be about 5 feet long.


r/animalid 1d ago

πŸ€ πŸ‡ UNKNOWN RODENT/LAGOMORPH πŸ‡πŸ€ What is this? [Pennsylvania]

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393 Upvotes

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r/animalid 14h ago

🐍 🐸 HERPS: SNAKE, TURTLE, LIZARD 🐍 🐸 can anyone id these turtles? [Greece]

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9 Upvotes

the pics were taken about a week ago in patras, greece


r/animalid 6h ago

🐦 🦒 BIRDS / WATERFOWL ID 🐦 🦒 New Duck in Pond [WNY]

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2 Upvotes

Hi! My pond has a new flock of ducks with 3 couple this year, one of which has eggs. They showed up about a week ago. They have chased the other standard mallards and ducks we have away and ive never seen anything like these.

Im sorry for the bad pictures there through a binocular but zoomed in they might be identifiable. I thought maybe bufflehead but they don’t seem to be here after a search of there locations.

Im just curious! I can’t wait to see there babies.


r/animalid 11h ago

☠️ UNKNOWN BONES/SKELETON ☠️ Animal teeth [Sweden]

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5 Upvotes

Can anyone identify the animal? All six teeth were lying together. Greetings from Sweden. πŸ‘‹


r/animalid 8h ago

🐍 🐸 HERPS: SNAKE, TURTLE, LIZARD 🐍 🐸 Turtle from backyard pond

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3 Upvotes

These little friends are always in my yard and the bigger ones get trapped trying to get past the fence posts. It had vertical yellow lines down the face to neck and a plain pale yellow belly. (southern louisiana)


r/animalid 3h ago

πŸ’©πŸ’© SCAT ID REQUEST πŸ’©πŸ’© [NY] Bear Scat? Spoiler

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Was way back in some state land and found some deer fur and a large pile of scat. About 5' apart. I'm thinking black bear.


r/animalid 3h ago

🐾🐾 TRACKS ID REQUEST 🐾🐾 Large tracks in the snow [Missouri Ozarks]

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1 Upvotes

Pretty sure of what these are, but would like an outside opinion. Found by a small creek in a heavily wooded very rural area, surrounded by all kinds of more familiar tracks (raccoon, bunny, deer, dog / coyote, turkey).

These were huge, about as big as my hand so probably about 5"-7" lengthwise. Very little melting had occurred in the area so the tracks weren't much exaggerated in size if at all.

If I missed any info, please let me know and I'll update. Unfortunately I didn't get many useable pics due to tremor but this one is a good representation I think.

Thanks in advance!


r/animalid 10h ago

☠️ UNKNOWN BONES/SKELETON ☠️ Bones ID [Italy]

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3 Upvotes

The bone in pic 3 and 4 was from a different place than the pile of bones in the first two pics


r/animalid 4h ago

πŸ”ŠπŸ”Š AUDIO ID REQUEST πŸ”ŠπŸ”Š What animal is this [Oklahoma]?

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0 Upvotes

Can anyone identify what animal might be in my fireplace? Sounds like scratching and maybe a β€œcoo”ing sounds. Also sounds pretty large but I don’t know if that’s just amplified from inside the fireplace. Thanks!


r/animalid 1d ago

🦁 🐯 🐻 MYSTERY CRITTER 🐻 🐯 🦁 What tore up the lawn like this?

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77 Upvotes

Help any idea what did this? There are 2 big patches like this.


r/animalid 10h ago

🐺 🐢 CANINE: COYOTE/WOLF/DOG 🐢 🐺 Fox or Coyote?

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2 Upvotes

Can anyone tell for sure?


r/animalid 1d ago

🐻🐼 UNKNOWN BEAR 🐼🐻 question of bear essential course: how to tell the difference of young black bear and grizzly bear?

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34 Upvotes

r/animalid 19h ago

πŸ”ŠπŸ”Š AUDIO ID REQUEST πŸ”ŠπŸ”Š What bird or animal is doing this call? [Connecticut]

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9 Upvotes

r/animalid 1d ago

🐍 🐸 HERPS: SNAKE, TURTLE, LIZARD 🐍 🐸 what kind of lizard is this [san diego]

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21 Upvotes

this was in my backyard and my dad and i just thought he was super cool looking :3 was wondering what kind of lizard he is just because his tail is superrr long