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:


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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Are these true color pictures?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 minutes ago

I've been seeing a lot of these "color retouched" images being shared around- it's deliberately misleading and we ne e to call them out as such

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Not quite, looks slightly enhanced, but they're still cool looking. There's different kinds apparently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_giant_squirrel

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

It's the brightness & saturation levels, I think. :)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago

Holy shit. That's awesome.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Hello funky friend.