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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 (infosec.pub)
submitted 5 months ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to c/taneggs@lemmy.ca
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[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 12 points 5 months ago (7 children)

Are these true color pictures?

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 32 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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

[–] ObtuseDoorFrame@lemm.ee 9 points 5 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!

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 9 points 5 months ago

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

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 2 points 5 months ago

Yea, still cool.

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