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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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Giant multi-colored squirrels of India (lemmy.world)
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[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Are these true color pictures?

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 32 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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

[–] ObtuseDoorFrame@lemm.ee 9 points 2 weeks 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!

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 9 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yea, still cool.

[–] Electric_Druid@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] Electric_Druid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Good point, problematic in some areas but useful in others

[–] flango@lemmy.eco.br 6 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 weeks ago

Holy shit. That's awesome.

[–] squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 weeks ago

Hello funky friend.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

I'd love to meet one one day.