Zoo Animal ID by Photo

Your child pointed through the fence, asked what it was, and the name would not come. Before you go and read the sign, take one photo. The AI inside the phone offers candidates.

EIGHT SPECIALIST MODELS, ONE PER LOOKALIKE GROUP African grazers (impala, common eland and others): 17 Monkeys and lemurs of the world (aye-aye, rhesus macaque and others): 22 Wild canids of the world (red fox, African wild dog and others): 18 Mustelids of the world (stoat, wolverine and others): 15 Turtles and tortoises of the world (green sea turtle, Aldabra giant tortoise and others): 15 Squirrel family of the world (American red squirrel, groundhog and others): 14 Japanese wild mammals (badger, wild boar and others): 11 Zoo regulars (hippopotamus, giraffe, koala, gorilla and others): 12 With overlaps removed, 118 species in total. One big model asked to do everything makes more mistakes than several small ones, each raised on a group whose members look alike.

THREE ANSWERS AT MOST, AND SILENCE WHEN UNSURE At most three candidates, never a single verdict. Each carries one of three words: very similar, similar, or possibly similar. When confidence is short, nothing is offered at all. The same photo returns the same result every time.

TEST WHAT YOU LEARNED, AS A QUIZ The clues you read in the cards come back as four-choice questions. You can draw the questions from everything, from only the animals you found, or from only the ones you keep getting wrong.