r/animalid Oct 03 '24

All of these are bobcats

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2.3k Upvotes

r/animalid Apr 29 '25

🦦 🦑 FUCK IT I'M OUT🦑 🦦 I'm touching grass, and y'all should too

899 Upvotes

Anyone who has used reddit for more than, like, two years knows this website is a case study in enshittification - ads, bots, terrible UI, etc. I have finally experienced my last straw and I'm leaving /r/animalid and this terrible website. To make a long story short, a mod with about 60 mod actions in the last 12 months and who hasn't interacted with the community at all in about two years, has suddenly decided that this subreddit is now worth paying attention to since it's hit over a quarter million subscribers. In addition to undermining my decisions, he's a sniveling little prick and he's fucking useless.

The admins won't get rid of him because they're brainless and/or too lazy to actually properly assess the situation, so I'm just going to leave. I'm the only regularly active moderator this subreddit has ever had (aside from the ones I added) and the admins apparently could not give less of a fuck because they'd rather let some random window licker get in the way and take credit for my work than hurt his feelings because "he said he wants to stay :((("

I'm not going to rant any longer, but honestly, fuck this website. Just fuck this entire fucking website. I'm too exhausted to be polite or to fully explain the context. Just know that this subreddit will no longer offer reliable mustelid ID because society has lost its ability to rightfully call people out on their bullshit. I may be an asshole, but at least I gave a shit. That's more that can be said for a mod who was absent for two years and who has only been a mod for like 2 months longer than me (which is why I can't just remove him myself).

I declare /u/JorikThePooh to be new head moderator, for whatever it's worth. Good luck everyone, it was nice knowing a few of y'all.

Edit: fuck it may as well name names, the mod in question is /u/Stinky_Ham_Sandwich. Check out his post history. Compare it to mine. Does he look like an active community member of /r/animalid? The admins seem to think so. They also seem to think 60 mod actions per year is enough to keep a 277k strong subreddit in check. For context, I had 6k, and the least active mod that still regularly participates in the community has just under 1k. But clearly Mr. Sandwich is every bit as integral to the team as I am and it's his right to undermine my decisions and reduce my permissions without asking πŸ₯΄


r/animalid 7h ago

🐍 🐸 HERPS: SNAKE, TURTLE, LIZARD 🐍 🐸 What kind of lizard is this? [Georgia, US]

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257 Upvotes

r/animalid 52m ago

🐦 🦒 BIRDS / WATERFOWL ID 🐦 🦒 What kind of bird? [NJ Shore area]

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β€’ Upvotes

Hi!
This guy showed up on my doorstep about an hour ago. He has a red tag on each leg, but I cannot make out what they say. I was going to try to grab him to read the tag but do not want to stress him out. He didn’t go crazy when I got close, and he drank some water I gave him. I believe he’s a pigeon but cannot tell if he is wild or maybe a pet?
I don’t want him to get eaten by a fox or something overnight.
Any advice on how to proceed?
Thanks in advance!


r/animalid 1h ago

πŸ€ πŸ‡ UNKNOWN RODENT/LAGOMORPH πŸ‡πŸ€ Mouse or rat ? [Georgia]

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r/animalid 18h ago

🐺 🐢 CANINE: COYOTE/WOLF/DOG 🐢 🐺 ID request- [central coast California]

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99 Upvotes

Coyote and….somethin else….in the backyard tonight. A dog? A raccoon? Riparian habitat in a suburban area


r/animalid 8h ago

🦦 🦑 MUSTELID: WEASEL/MARTEN/BADGER 🦑 🦦 Id request [central Indiana, USA]

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9 Upvotes

Long tailed weasel is my guess but don't know much about what other options are native. Thanks!


r/animalid 1d ago

πŸ¦‰ πŸ¦… BIRD OF PREY πŸ¦… πŸ¦‰ These are turkey vultures right? Not just turkeys? [Maine]

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636 Upvotes

They were huge, the photos don’t do their size justice. I drove right up to them, they were not intimidated or scared of my vehicle.


r/animalid 2h ago

🐾🐾 TRACKS ID REQUEST 🐾🐾 Who left these itty bitty tracks? [Lulu Island/Richmond, BC, Canada]

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2 Upvotes

Poking around a bit of sandy riverbank near an industrialized bit of the lower StΓ³:lō/Fraser River, we found human and dog and raccoon tracks in the wet intertidal zone. Then there was this little thing I couldn’t ID. Critter would have been active in the early morning but not before 8am as this sand was underwater then. Pic 2 includes my US size 7 boot for scale.


r/animalid 10h ago

🐾🐾 TRACKS ID REQUEST 🐾🐾 Found these tracks last year and still can’t identify them [Southern Appalachians]

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7 Upvotes

I found these tracks around this time last year in the southern Appalachian region, and I still haven’t been able to figure out what made them.
I’m keeping the exact location vague because I don’t want the location itself to influence the identification. The prints were roughly 4 to 4.5 inches long.
Any ideas what animal these could be?


r/animalid 20h ago

🦦 🦑 MUSTELID: WEASEL/MARTEN/BADGER 🦑 🦦 What mustelid is this? [ashland oregon]

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41 Upvotes

I’m certain this is some sort of mustelid, but I’m not sure which one. About the size of a house cat, but maybe a bit longer including the tail. Seen on a hike in the hills near Ashland, and quite a trek away from any body of water. My best guess is either a mink or a marten, but the tail didn’t look quite like anything I could find online


r/animalid 1d ago

🐺 🐢 CANINE: COYOTE/WOLF/DOG 🐢 🐺 [NJ] Is this a coyote or a fox?

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163 Upvotes

I feel like it’s a coyote (obviously) but everyone says it’s a fox I show the video to


r/animalid 6h ago

🦁 🐯 🐻 MYSTERY CRITTER 🐻 🐯 🦁 Beaver? Otter? Mink? Muskrat? [Northern Maine]

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2 Upvotes

I have a game camera up at my camp in central Maine. Near Moosehead Lake. There’s fish, crawdads and muscles in this small body of water fed by a brook. I caught this animal swimming across the edge of the pond. Can anyone properly ID it?


r/animalid 10h ago

🦁 🐯 🐻 MYSTERY CRITTER 🐻 🐯 🦁 What’s this guy?[Olympic Peninsula, WA]

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We see deer, bobcats, mountain lions, and even a house cat. This guy has us stumped.


r/animalid 3h ago

🐍 🐸 HERPS: SNAKE, TURTLE, LIZARD 🐍 🐸 Who's this little guy? [Po plain, northern Italy]

1 Upvotes

I know that the flair is probably the wrong one but there isn't one for amphibians, only reptiles??


r/animalid 4h ago

🐦 🦒 BIRDS / WATERFOWL ID 🐦 🦒 Super low quality photos of sea birds [Isle of Sheppey, England]

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1 Upvotes

I'm not sure if these are even identifiable.

I think the large bird in Image 1 is a Western European Herring Gull (Larus argentatus argenteus) and the small black bird in Image 2 didn't have a red beak so I don't think it was a Eurasian Oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus).


r/animalid 1d ago

πŸ€ πŸ‡ UNKNOWN RODENT/LAGOMORPH πŸ‡πŸ€ What is this rat mouse thing? Maybe around 5.5 inches [southwest US]

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1.0k Upvotes

I tried to give it a stale cookie but it didn't want it.


r/animalid 21h ago

🦁 🐯 🐻 MYSTERY CRITTER 🐻 🐯 🦁 Honestly have no clue what I'm looking at. Super small [Virginia]

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15 Upvotes

I am unsure if this is like a weird small frog or what


r/animalid 1d ago

πŸ¦‰ πŸ¦… BIRD OF PREY πŸ¦… πŸ¦‰ Can anyone identify these two birds of prey? [northern ohio]

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29 Upvotes

Unfortunately this is all the footage I have because they were pretty far away


r/animalid 8h ago

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

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1 Upvotes

Stumbled across this recording I’d taken in early April of 2025 of this creepy sounding critter I’d hear pretty much every night. This was taken out in the country on my in laws’s property near their pond. My guess is either it’s a skinwalker, Creature from the Black Lagoon, OR more likely some kind of frog or toad. I’m curious to see if anyone knows what specific species it might be. Really gave me the heebie jeebies hearing that coming from the wooded pond area on a pitch black night 😳

My 5 year old is asking me what it is and I don’t have an answer for him πŸ™ƒ he thinks I’m the coolest and smartest mom of all time, so this is really losing me some major cool points here.

Any help is greatly appreciated! As mentioned in the title this was taken in Oklahoma but just in case I need to be more specific, this is the Newcastle/Blanchard area. Thanks in advance!