Animal Identification. This subreddit helps users identify animal species from pictures, videos, audio or calls, tracks, dens, scat, etc. All ID requests should include the animal's LOCATION (country, state, city, name of ocean or coast). This sub is NOT for identifying breed info for cats/dogs or identifying insects/parasites. Comments should be helpful or educational only, and advice should be legal and humane. Welcome! Founded 2010 · 356.1K members
356.3K members. The best post we have captured here reached
60.9K upvotes, which works out to
171 per 1,000 members.
The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.
Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.
What is r/animalid?
r/animalid ("Animal Identification") describes itself this way: This subreddit helps users identify animal species from pictures, videos, audio or calls, tracks, dens, scat, etc. All ID requests should include the animal's LOCATION (country, state, city, name of ocean or coast). This sub is NOT for identifying breed info for cats/dogs or identifying insects/parasites. Comments should be helpful or educational only, and advice should be legal and humane. Welcome. It was founded in 2010 and has 356.1K members.
How many members does r/animalid have?
r/animalid has about 356.3K members. ViralHunt has tracked 405 of its posts; the biggest reached 60.9K upvotes, which is 171 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/animalid?
"White bear [virginia]" reached 60.9K upvotes and 75 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/animalid.
What subreddits are similar to r/animalid?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes, r/BlueskySkeets.
What kind of posts do best on r/animalid?
Of the posts we hold, 34% are gallery posts and 33% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/animalid?
Across 405 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 23:00 UTC (22.9K avg upvotes), Thursday at 15:00 UTC (11.9K avg upvotes), Sunday at 13:00 UTC (11.4K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/animalid?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/animalid has 15.4K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 57 posts from it in the last 30 days.
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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/animalid, not everything the
community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is
weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.
Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed.
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