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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Giant multi-colored squirrels of India (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/taneggs

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've seen it a lot in astrophotography, but there they have a reason to remap the colors.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Good point, problematic in some areas but useful in others