Sharks and bears are your newest Facebook friends

摘要

We all know that the internet loves animals. Now you can take that adoration one step further and friend a wild animal on Facebook. The creatures are getting online thanks to WildMe, a social media app that pulls data from citizen-science platform WildBook and turns it into Facebook pages. The prototype app, already live online, has pages where users can friend and get updates on whale sharks (pictured below) and polar bears. A campaign on the crowdf unding site Indiegogo has been under way since 17 December to raise money to add more animals to the list.