On 02/05/06, Stan Shebs shebs@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