Hi all,

We are announcing a new protocol for submitting observations to Who Eats Who. Starting now, we are requiring submissions to the project to involve two individual observations uploaded to iNaturalist: the animal/plant/fungus being eaten and the animal doing the eating. BOTH these observations should be added to our project. It's ok if you use the same photograph(s) in both observations.

We have added a new required observation field to the project that involves providing a URL to the "partner" observation in order to link the two observations.

Making this change will allow us to more easily code feeding behavior in the model we are building, as without some kind of user-submitted data linking the two observations we would have to link the observations manually. This change will also increase the data quality of the observations since both the "eater" and the creature being eaten will have crowd-sourced IDs on iNaturalist.

Thanks so much for being a part of Who Eats Who! We are so happy this project has grown organically to over 200 observations and are excited to share with everyone the preliminary results of the project once we hit about 500 observations. Those results will involve a massive, interactive global food web hosted online-- it's going to be really neat!

Thanks all,

Bradley Allf
PhD Student
North Carolina State University