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I feel the article would benefit from pictures of wild wombat droppings in their natural state. Fortunately, we have a few on the Vombatus ursinus page [1]. (I
by MattBlissett 8y ago
I feel the article would benefit from pictures of wild wombat droppings in their natural state.
Fortunately, we have a few on the Vombatus ursinus page [1]. (I work at GBIF.)
> Wombats are in trouble.
It's not direct help as such, but better data can show if the real help is really helping. The nicest poo picture is [2], which is from the iNaturalist project[3], where non-biologists can submit observations of wildlife. Other wombat observations are from Questagame [4], an Australian app which gamifies observing wildlife.
The data can then be used by biologists to inform their analysis. For example, here [5] are all 69,776 records of wombats we have in TSV format.
[1] https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/gallery?taxon_key=2440301 https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/gallery?taxon_key=2440301
[2] https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/1841291586 https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/1841291586
[3] https://www.iNaturalist.org/ https://www.iNaturalist.org/
[4] https://questagame.com/ https://questagame.com/
[5] https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/download/0006766-181108115102211 https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/download/0006766-18110811510...
(Edit: I should add we're looking for an additional developer, see the gbif.org homepage.)