Groundsky

I like stuff animal-related

[cherihezi]

This is my main blog where I mostly reblog things I like (mostly animal/furry stuff) and hoard web graphics.

my site!

side blog

[pnglove]

Mate, you’ve got a chubby lizard on your dashboard

[redtsundere-pngs]

i told the stars about you.

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

You’ve seen those photos of dogs snapped through catching a treat, with just the silliest faces? I see those and raise you: a tiger catching meatballs.

This is Kali, a Sumatran tigress at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma.

[theswordofdamntheseknees]

Looks to me the tiger stepped on a Lego(s) and the “meatballs” were Photoshopped-in. C’mon, we’ve all made those faces.

What say you, @hatesaltrat , @mysterypinups ?!

[animalphotorefs]

Hey so you might want to check the blog info - this project is completely my own photography, and I am explicitly and rather rabidly anti-AI in sentiment.

I’m not upset or anything, I can kinda see what you mean! If you’re expecting anything cool on the internet these days to probably be fake, yeah, the colors on the meat do look incongruous.

Let’s take a second here and use this as an educational experience for everyone. Fake animal photos are totally an internet scourge these days. If you don’t trust the OP of a post like this saying it’s not AI, how else could you check and try to find out?

Three things to help you verify not slop:

1. There’s a bunch of other photos in series with this one on my website, which allows you to see context for when and how the photos were taken. There’s also other photos of this animal and this habitat in other lighting and weather conditions. That’s generally more work than people will go to if they just want to create a viral photo, and you can look for internal consistency.

2. AI isn’t good enough yet to replicate specific stripe patterns on individual tigers, they get all wonky. The animal and her location are named in this instance and it’s easy to google to see if everything lines up.

3. You can also check to see if the thing in photos actually happens. The meatball throwing demo is a very, very common occurrence at this facility! It’s a regular activity during talks when tigers are in that habitat (it is a multi-species rotational space). They posted a video on their Facebook fourteen hours ago of their curator getting a direct shot into a different tiger’s mouth.

In general, it’s good to be skeptical these days! But it’s also useful to know how to check some of the things that will help you find out what’s real and what isn’t.

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

Hah, okay, I just realized that I just assumed this post was one from the Repository account and reblogged the educational stuff from there instead of WADTT. Don’t blog in the first few minutes after you wake up, folks!

So, to caveat what I had said, the first option would be a good way to check if the photo had been posted on the right blog - the one with a photo website attached. Coming from the WADTT blog you’d want to use the other two options. 🙃

[pawberri]

Retro tech furries

[nightmarereverie]

[pngblog]

[molten-pngs]

mint chocolate pngs ꕀ resourced from pinterest, do not credit me, enjoy ♡

⤷ dm for credits/removal.

[kyunyuu]

PNGs and GIFs from my old tablet <3 free to use dm me for credits/removal

[redtsundere-pngs]

Thanks for the 10k followers! I know I have been a bit gone for a while, but I'm glad I still have this small space where I can share some of my favorite internet finds with ya'll :3

[herpsandbirds]

Cloven-feathered Dove (Drepanoptila holosericea), family Columbidae, endemic to New Caledonia

photograph by Lev Frid

[mammalianmammals]

Northern Hog Badger (Arctonyx albogularis), family Mustelidae, Kaziranga Tiger Reserve, Assam, India

Once considered to be a subspecies of the Greater Hog Badger, A. collaris, which has now been split into 3 species.

photograph by Soumyajit Nandy

[lemons4-breakfast]

Meep!

[ungoliantschilde]

an original Chuck Jones sketch of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi from 1976.

[diabloindigo]

[herpsandbirds]

Five-lined Skink (Plestiodon fasciatus), juvenile, family Scincidae, Central TX, USA

photograph by Cindy Brown

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