The Hunt
Mission mode · find a thing, sign, evidence or occurrence
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Can you help find the answer?
A Hunt starts with a question inside a Mission: what thing, sign, species, occurrence or evidence needs finding? Examine sources, identify knowledge gaps and connect research, skills and people with ecological work. A Mission frames the question and the evidence needed. Hunt is the search mode within that Mission. Choose an investigation to begin.
Your investigation builds understanding by checking an answer against its sources. Progress and drafts stay on this device; exercise completion is not independent scientific verification or evidence of ecological impact.
Missions — the question, required work and reviewPublished reference material · personal discovery
Investigate the possum dossier
Use existing dossier evidence to discover its introduction history, identification profile and ecological effects. These exercises check the complete wording of an evidence extract, ignoring case and spacing; they do not assess paraphrases.
Explore possum discoveriesRead the dossierSynthetic prediction example
Where are they coming back in?
Study an example intelligence picture, make a call and reveal a synthetic field answer. The place, call totals and result belong to the example; no live operation is represented and no points are awarded.
Try the predictionBrowser-local training
Practise working with evidence
Research and verification exercises let you save a response and source on this device. Pending review is a local exercise state: nothing is delivered to a review team.
Open research and verification MissionsObservation and open questions
What question does a place raise?
Pocket Ecologist connects observations with questions and ecological knowledge. The intended Mission model connects Online requests for Field observation with Field requests for identification, research or context. The exercises here do not send requests or deliver contributions for review.