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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。凯特·张是一名城市设计师。但在业余时间，她喜欢研究其他生命。

Ever since I was a little girl, I've been interested in the natural world. We're native Hawaiian. Our family and my grandmother would take me around her yard.

从我还是个小女孩起，我就对自然界感兴趣。我们是夏威夷原住民。我的家人和祖母会带我在她的院子里转转。

She would show us all the plants and how you use them. And later when I was interested in learning about fungi, I didn't have anybody to help me with it.

她会向我们展示所有的植物以及如何使用它们。后来当我对学习真菌感兴趣时，却没有人能在这方面帮助我。

Someone suggested iNaturalist to me, and it's on your cell phone.

有人向我推荐了iNaturist， 在手机上就可以使用。

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

iNaturist是国家地理和加州科学院联合发起的应用。

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

从本质上讲，人们可以给任何生物拍照，比如植物、动物、真菌、黏菌，然后把照片上传到网站上，由其他人来识别它们。

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

该应用程序将图像与数据库中已有的图像进行比对，以启动识别过程。但最终，还需要人类专家进行评估。

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

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