Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Nautilus

    How I Became a Crowd-Sourced Zoologist

    by Zach St. George Sep 16, 2015 4 minutes

    In the center of the photo, standing amid dry brush and trees, is something’s butt. I have 50-some animals to choose from, and I’m really not sure whose butt it is—maybe a duiker’s, a small, deer-like creature. “If you see an animal, please mark it,” the instructions say, “even if you’re not sure, or have no idea what it is.” Apparently, any errors will be filtered out. A duiker’s butt it is. Next image.

    Candid: A photo of a lion in Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park, taken by one of ecologist Paola Bouley’s motion-triggered cameras.Paola Bouley/Wildcam Gorongosa.

    Flipping through picture after picture of an African landscape, trying to identify any

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from Nautilus

    Nautilus8 min readIntelligence (AI) & Semantics
    Consciousness, Creativity, and Godlike AI
    These days, we’re inundated with speculation about the future of artificial intelligence—and specifically how AI might take away our jobs, or steal the creative work of writers and artists, or even destroy the human species. The American writer Megha
    Nautilus7 min read
    The Feminist Botanist
    Lydia Becker sat down at her desk in the British village of Altham, a view of fields unfurling outside of her window. Surrounded by her notes and papers, the 36-year-old carefully wrote a short letter to the most eminent and controversial scientist o
    Nautilus7 min read
    A Radical Rescue for Caribbean Reefs
    It’s an all-too-familiar headline: Coral reefs are in crisis. Indeed, in the past 50 years, roughly half of Earth’s coral reefs have died. Coral ecosystems are among the most biodiverse and valuable places on Earth, supporting upward of 860,000 speci

    Related Books & Audiobooks