this post was submitted on 05 Apr 2025
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Tan Eggs
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"When I'm a small prey mammal and I've evolved to survive the barren rocky landscape by optimizing into a tan egg"
For posts about animals that loosely fit the description above. While the animal does not have to hit all the requirements, it should hit some of them:
- Type: Prey
- Class: Mammalia (mammal)
- Habitat: Barren rocky landscape
- Appearance: Similar to a tan egg
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- Screenshot over on [email protected]
- Tumblr post
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Are these true color pictures?
Not quite, looks slightly enhanced, but they're still cool looking. There's different kinds apparently.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_giant_squirrel
Yea, still cool.
I could've sworn the first pic was AI... there's just something off about it. I think it was the post processing/color tweaking that was throwing me off. Your photos don't have that same weirdness.
What a cool animal!
It's the brightness & saturation levels, I think. :)
I've been seeing a lot of these "color retouched" images being shared around- it's deliberately misleading and we need to call them out as such.
I've seen it a lot in astrophotography, but there they have a reason to remap the colors.
Good point, problematic in some areas but useful in others