How Photographers Can Preserve the Context Behind Animal Encounters
Keep setting, historical place, and honest identity with the picture so the encounter still makes sense in five years.
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A beautiful crop without context is a postcard
Wild versus zoo, the actual place, and whether several animals were in shot are the difference between a postcard and a record. Import asks for those confirmations on purpose.
Do not let the phone invent the place
Current GPS is where you are now. Caption text is what you typed then. Neither is automatically the capture location of a historical photograph.
If you do not know, say you do not know. AnimalDex can record unknown; it will not treat that as enough to import.
Identity can stay at group level
Some animals are indexed as a group on purpose. Forcing a species-level name to look more professional makes the archive worse, not better.
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