Key:animal
 animal
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Indicates which animals are present at a location.  
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| Group: Animals |
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| Documented values: 2 |
| Status: in use |
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The key animal=* indicates which animals are present at that location. For example, it can be used in combination with top-level tags like amenity=*, building=*, highway=*, landuse=*.
Some animal-related facilities used to be tagged like with animal=horse_walker and animal=school. (Note that animal=school is in decline and that amenity=animal_training is used more frequently nowadays and therefore recommended).[1]); problem: Homonymous keys
Values
The value should be the common name of the animal. For the scientific name there is the key species=*.
Examples:
animal=cattle(The taganimal=cowis also used [2])animal=piganimal=sheepanimal=horseanimal=chicken
The singular form is more common than the plural and is therefore recommended.
Multiple values can be separated with a semi-colon, for example at farm with both foxes and mink animal=fox;mink.
animal=yes is used occasionally, but inconsistently. For venues such as hotels it specifies that pets are allowed, but pets=* and pets_allowed=* are more established. In combination with landuse=meadow and landuse=farmland, it seems to indicate that the land is used for animal grazing, i.e. synonymously with meadow=pasture.
Examples
- Livestock building
A building that was built for housing animals and in this example is used to house chickens:
building=livestock
animal=chicken
(Note that for certain animals there is already a specific building tag which is recommended, e.g. building=stable, building=sty and building=cowshed).
- Grazing meadow
A meadow used for sheep grazing:
landuse=meadowmeadow=pastureanimal=sheep
- Farmyard
A farmyard where pigs are kept:
landuse=farmyard
animal=pig
- Slaughterhouse
A slaughterhouse for calves:
industrial=slaughterhouse
animal=cow
Livestock products
For animals commonly kept as livestock, the products that they are used for can be tagged separately.
- Dairy cows
animal=cow product=milk
- Cows kept for meat
animal=cow product=meat
- Ducks kept for eggs
animal=duck product=egg
- Minks kept for fur
animal=mink product=fur