# BioPulse Recent Wildlife Sightings

> BioPulse Recent Wildlife Sightings is a paid API for AI agents from biopulse-nine.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.08/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Returns recent citizen-science wildlife observations near a given location, sourced from iNaturalist and similar platforms.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://biopulse-nine.vercel.app/api/bio/sightings
- Price: $0.08/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/biopulse-recent-wildlife-sightings-bc734ca5
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_f9XC_7C9I1SmwCW4v9Hka

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability biopulse-recent-wildlife-sightings-bc734ca5
```

Example prompt: Pull up recent wildlife sightings within 25 kilometers of Yosemite Valley — I want to see what animals citizen scientists have reported there in the last two weeks.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need real-time or recent citizen-science wildlife observations tied to a geographic area. It is ideal for naturalist trip planning, wildlife monitoring, or ecological awareness queries where you need ground-truth sighting data from platforms like iNaturalist rather than range maps or static species data. Prefer it over the species profile or endangered species endpoints when the question is 'what has been seen recently here?' rather than 'what do we know about this species?'

## Known failure modes

- No sightings found for the specified location or radius — returns empty result set
- Invalid or unresolvable location input — returns 400-level error
- iNaturalist or upstream API unavailable — returns 5xx or degraded response
- Overly broad or large radius may return throttled or truncated results
- Rate limiting or payment failure may prevent response delivery

## How this service works

Recent wildlife sightings near a location for naturalist and wildlife agents. Returns citizen-science observations from iNaturalist and similar sources.

## Output

A list of recent wildlife sightings near the queried location, including species names, observation dates and times, geographic coordinates, observer attribution, and the source platform (e.g. iNaturalist). Each record represents a citizen-science report of a wild species observed in the field.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "lat": {
   "type": "number",
   "description": "lat"
  },
  "lng": {
   "type": "number",
   "description": "lng"
  },
  "lang": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "lang"
  },
  "radius": {
   "type": "integer",
   "description": "Radius in km (max 100, default 25)"
  },
  "location": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "location"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {}
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/biopulse-recent-wildlife-sightings-bc734ca5/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from biopulse-nine.vercel.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/biopulse-nine.vercel.app/llms.txt)