# Google Research — Where wild things roam: Identifying wildlife with SpeciesNet

- Company: Google Research (research.google)
- Announced: 2026-03-06T17:59:38+00:00
- Subject: Research
- Models affected: SpeciesNet, MegaDetector
- Source: https://research.google/blog/where-wild-things-roam-identifying-wildlife-with-speciesnet/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1363-where-wild-things-roam-identifying-wildlife-with-speciesnet

SpeciesNet is an open-source AI model developed by Google Research that identifies wildlife in camera trap images. It was released open-source a year ago. It can classify nearly 2,500 animal categories and was trained on 65 million labeled images. The post highlights its performance and use by research groups worldwide.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://research.google/blog/where-wild-things-roam-identifying-wildlife-with-speciesnet/:

> This Google-developed AI model can classify nearly 2,500 animal categories in camera trap images, thanks to conservation partners who have provided 65M labelled images to train the model.

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