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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)
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[–] Electric_Druid@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 3 points 3 months 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 3 months ago

Good point, problematic in some areas but useful in others