#rock hyrax

[spicymochi]

silly hyrax

[backflipwizard]

let's all lay on mama

[great-and-small]

Not that it’s news but I get so mad at how much google sucks now. When I search for a Rock Hyrax one of the first photos is an obviously AI generated image

I know this not only because the face and ears are all wrong, but also because the idiot computer gave this animal long claws when it very famously has weird little suction cup feet used to grip rocks. Here’s what a rock hyrax’s feet actually look like

I know generative AI is not generally viewed favorably on this website and I’m kind of preaching to the choir here but this really frustrates me.

Internet search results being tainted with these inaccurate animal AI photos is absolutely going to degrade our collective knowledge base. Many artists and scientific illustrators use image search engines to find reference photos, and if you didn’t know what hyrax feet look like it’d be super easy to miss that this photo is not real.

Just a good reminder to always find the source for a photo if you’re going to use it as any kind of reference! More and more “wildlife photography” out there is actually AI slop :(

[kirkendauhl-v2]

[hurglewurm]

stacked

[littlealienproducts]

Rock Hyrax Plush by NaBakir

[alphynix]

World's first known butt-drag fossil trace was left by a rock hyrax in South Africa 126,000 years ago

Rock hyraxes, known in southern Africa more often as "dassies," are furry, thickset creatures with short legs and no discernible tails. They

[bellasauruss]

How to draw hyrax head tutorials