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] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Are these true color pictures?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 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 2 months 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] 9 points 2 months ago

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

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

Yea, still cool.

[–] [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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

My man is ready to work in the Vatican swiss guard Vatican

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Holy shit. That's awesome.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Hello funky friend.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I'd love to meet one one day.