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This is a slime mold. Cat Chang is an urban designer. But in her spare time, she likes to examine other life-forms.

这是一种黏菌。张凯特是城市设计师。但在业余时间，她喜欢研究其他生命形式。

Ever since I was a little girl, I've been interested in the natural world. We're native Hawaiian.

从小我就对自然界充满兴趣，我们是夏威夷原住民。

Our family and my grandmother would take me around her yard. She would show us all the plants and how you use them.

家人和祖母会带我参观她的院子。她会向我们展示所有的植物以及它们的用途。

And later when I was interested in learning about fungi, I didn't have anybody to help me with it. Someone suggested iNaturalist to me, and it's on your cell phone.

后来我对真菌产生了兴趣，却没有人能在这方面帮助我。有人向我推荐了iNaturist，可以装在手机上。

iNaturalist is a joint initiative of National Geographic and the California Academy of Sciences.

iNaturalist是美国国家地理学会与加利福尼亚科学院联合发起的项目。

Essentially people can take a photo of anything living, plants, animal, fungus, slime mold, put it on the website and other people identify it.

本质上，人们可以给任何有生命的东西拍照，比如植物、动物、真菌、黏菌，然后把照片上传到网站上，然后由其他人来识别。

The app compares the image with those already in the database to begin the identification process. But ultimately, human experts weigh in.

该应用将图像与数据库中已有的图像进行比较以启动识别过程，但最终仍需由人类专家进行判断。

The best part of it is there's a community of people that can also participate.

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