Mixing between catalogues across species!

Bug Reports
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In which Wildbook did the issue occur? Flukebook

What operating system were you using? (eg. MacOS 10.15.3) Windows 11

What web browser were you using? (eg. Chrome 79) Chrome Version 144.0.7559.133 (Official Build) (64-bit)

What is your role on the site? (admin, researcher, etc) Admin, researcher

What happened? When I search for individual 6026 it returns two species NBW from the scotia shelf as well as the sperm whale from Dominica I am looking for. Flukebook

What did you expect to happen? Search bar says the 6026 with the nickname Divergent for the sperm whale, and says the species is physeter macrocephalus, but the encounter table includes other encounters from Canada of a different species. Likley because their catalogue number is also 6026 perhaps?

What are some steps we could take to reproduce the issue? link above

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Hi @ShaneGero

We’ve seen this reported before but are unable to reproduce how it occurs.

Ordinarily, I’d unassign the incorrect IDs from the encounters and manually assign them to the correct individual. However, I’ve discovered that this bug is impacting my ability to assign it to the right ID at all: Wildbook not suggesting existing individual IDs after 10.9.2 update · Issue #1394 · WildMeOrg/Wildbook · GitHub

I’ll need more time to work on this.

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I was able to move the dolphin encounters over to the correct ID. I used the Visual Matcher as a workaround to assign the correct individual.