Look at the photo of the dumbo octopus: The Deepest Ocean Creatures Ever Found Off the US Coast
Zoological inaccuracies & mistakes
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Look at the photo of the nine-banded armadillo: These Are The Most Popular Animals Of Texas - Animals Around The Globe
Meet The 10 Most Popular Animals Of Washington - Animals Around The Globe says the elk (Cervus canadensis) is the largest deer in North America. I would prefer it if the word 'elk' were replaced by moose or wapiti. The photo of a 'mountain goat' shows a Himalayan tahr.
Look at the photo of the 'sea otter' here: Meet The 10 Most Popular Animals Of Alaska - Animals Around The Globe
Honestly I think if these writers are openly using generative AI to illustrate their articles, their prime priority is not so much of accuracy but how fast they can get an article out. And unfortunately this 'quickness' I think is how they have been able to dominate the internet.
There was a time when I was distressed that the public wasn't consuming quality content.... but now I have come to the catharsis that if the people want quality information they will go looking for it themselves. But it's a pity that this is what dominates.
Look at the photos of the Javan mongoose: Meet The 10 Most Popular Animals Of Hawaii - Animals Around The Globe
Look at 6, the dragonfish: The Weirdest Fish Species Found in the Abyss - Animals Around The Globe
The 'photo' of 6 The Daggernose Shark is the worst of the lot: 10 Most Endangered Animals in South America - Animals Around The Globe
Van Beal
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My question is why do they have an image labelled as a Ceylon leopard on a page dedicated to endangered South American animals?
The Role of Big Cats in the Amazon Rainforest has photos of various cats that don't live in the Amazon
Why Texas Has More Bats Than Any Other State includes photos of fruit bats
Look at the photos of the 'sand cat', 'marbled cat', flat-headed cat' and 'rusty-spotted cat': The Role of Big Cats in Spirituality and Ancient Rituals
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I don't know what is the worst thing about this article - the agregiously wrong pictures for these species [a lion for a rusty-spotted cat? really?] the title specifying 'big cats' when the four animals listed are small cats [and indeed not the only small cats in the article], or the puma appearing twice as 'cougar' and 'puma' >.<
Look at the photo of the Sunda clouded leopard: 6 Big Cats That Are the Most Skilled Tree Climbers
Look at the photo of the aye-aye: 10 Rare Animals You've Never Heard Of - Animals Around The Globe
Look at the photo of the white cockatoo: 15 Animals and Wildlife that Start with C - Animals Around The Globe
Instead of just posting strings of links and saying "look at this", why don't you say what the mistake is so that people know whether they want to bother opening the link?
(For those who aren't bothered it's a phone photo of a raccoon carrying bread or something in it's mouth), mistakes like these are a dime a dozen considering how fast junk news/articles like this get pumped out onto the internet especially with the rapid use of AI.
Cacoon.