On 02/05/06, Stan Shebs <shebs(a)apple.com> wrote:
It is true that identifying plants and animals from
photos is a bit
of a minefield - very often the key characteristic(s) distinguishing
a species from all others is not visible in the photo, so one might
say that that makes it "unverifiable" without other info, such as
a label on a cage. On the other hand, people who've worked with ToL
Well, I'd sort of say it doesn't matter. Take the simple case of an
animal whose sex can't be distinguished without close inspection.
There's no point captioning an image "Male ..." if you can't tell in
the photo. Perhaps we should just use captions like "A member of the
Red-horned Bat family, possible the Lesser" or something.
Steve