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50 Times People Spotted Things In Very Unusual Colors And Just Had To Document It For Everyone To See
The chance your backyard is being savaged by a mole is quite a high one. Unless we’re talking an albino mole, this little white dude with a congenital lack of melanin, which occurs 1:100,000. But there’s something inherently beautiful about the odd ones out in this world, where everything seems identical to one another.
And this time, we have prepared a real treat for anyone who loves rare sights, unusual color combinations, and anything out of the ordinary. Thanks to the subreddit “Real Life Shinies” created on the 16th of June, 2016, 247k members have gathered an incredible collection of “shinies but in the real world!”
From wild animals and pets to street signs and architecture, these shinies will change your perspective of the color of things we know very well, or rather, we think we know. Let’s make our heads spin a little, and then a little more.
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#1
Shiny Black Cockatoo
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#2
When You’re Dark And Spooky But Very Cute
#3
This Golden Mouse
To find out more about the community of “Real Life Shinies,” Bored Panda reached out to the moderator u/papa_goobs, who said that the subreddit was first created by the user u/IAlwaysLieAMA who has since quit social media. “He originally posted a comment and someone had done the whole "/r/fakesubhere" and ended up creating the subreddit and it just took off from that post.”
Today, the subreddit has around 1 to 3 posts daily, but the moderator assured us that they can receive up to 10 submissions per day if the subreddit gets featured anywhere.
When asked what the title refers to, u/papa_goobs explained that “Real Life Shinies refers to the Pokémon universe, in which you can obtain a specially colored version of a Pokémon by random chance. This translates into objects that aren't the natural color they are in a more mainstream light.”
The moderator’s favorite posts are the “oddball ones, like this clear pie, or most recently, this little guy with his extra toes.”
#4
A Really Shiny Beautiful Creature
#5
Meet Narnia, A Rare Two Faced Cat
cursed--alien 3 years ago
This cat is a chimera. When it was in the womb, it absorbed one of its littermates and the two kittens developed as one.
#6
This Unique Chicken With Heart Patterns In Its Plumage
#7
The Blue Java Banana Taste Like Vanilla Ice-Cream
#8
A Partially Melanistic Genetic Variation Called A Cross Fox
#9
White Chocolate Mousse
#10
A Black Cat With A Pink Nose!
#11
Half Albino Peacock
Lauren Caswell 3 years ago
The malfoys would approve (nb growing up our house wasnt far from one that had honest to god peacocks and peahens, they would come on to our lawn and make such a noise near bedtime, but now whenever I hear peacocks and peahens it makes me sleepy lol)
#12
Shadow Turtle!
#13
Australian Veterinary Clinic Rescues A Golden Possum. They Named Him Pikachu
#14
Shiny Zebra
#15
“Zeus” The Blind Owl Has Beautiful Stars In Its Eyes
#16
Only Known Albino Hump Back Whale On The Planet
#17
Pet The Darkness
#18
An Iridescent Thresher Shark
#19
This Alabaster Kitten Named Olive Has Half Brown And Half Blue Eyes Due To A Rare Genetic Condition Named Sectorial Heterochromia Iridis!
#20
My Hair Is Half Blonde Half Brunette. Including Eyebrows And Eyelashes
#21
A Black Doe
#22
Rare White Giraffes Sighted In Kenya Conservation Area
#23
Extremely Rare White Baby Reindeer
#24
White Dog With A Black Head
Catto De Smol 3 years ago
(Absolutely no racism intended) Why are there so many black things in this post?
#25
What Is This Little Golden Beetle? Maine
#26
Iridescent Clouds In Siberia
#27
This Is An Albino Wood Turtle , These Are One Of The Rarest Turtle Morphs In The World
#28
A Black Flamingo Spotted In Cyprus, 2015
#29
Atelopus Barbotini, A Purple Toad
#30
Shiny Racoon
#32
“It’s Not Just A Phase, Mom”
#33
Alolan Fox
#34
Strawberry Finch
#35
Half Red Half White Flower
Dynein 3 years ago
Very cool! Cause is a random mutation during flower development that caused a main component for producing the red pigment to be either trash and completely absent. All cells descending from the original mutated cell inherited the defect and are therefore unable to create the pigment. Mutations happening in fully developed organisms are pretty common - after all, growth and tissue renewal require cell division, and for each cell division the complete genome has to be copied. Despite the extremely low error rate overall, the sheer number of cell divisions means that per organisms, mutations are pretty much bound to happen. That's what cancer is about... Also the cause of moles. Also, it's the reason why skin and colon cancer are the most common, those tissues renew like crazy! Older cells are pushed to the outermost layer, where friction eventually removes them. The skin is completely renewed about every 4 weeks. Lecture end. Sorry about the weird berth from roses to skin cancer...
#37
My “Black Magic” Petunias From This Summer
#38
Rare Black Hulk Hogan Spotted
#39
Leucistic Sea Turtle Found On Fb
#40
White Moth With A Chicken Face
#41
Black Gecko
#42
This Cat Has A Rare Red Fur Pattern
Reirei 3 years ago
Wow this looks so much like my last cat, rest her soul. Every summer she turned rusty red like this, it was quite beautiful.
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#43
Shiny Rottweiler
#44
This Snake Has A Pumpkin On His Back
#45
A 1 In 2,000,000 Blue Lobster!
Zoe Hoesley 3 years ago
iM bLuE dA bOo dEe dA bOo dIe dA bOo deE dA bOo diE da bOo dEe dA bOo diE
#46
Does This Glitched Zebra Count?
#47
Shiny Bearded Dragons
#48
Shiny Ginger Seal Pup In Russia
Julia Atkinson 3 years ago
The seal on the left is on the verge of slapping him for hogging the camera
#49
Coolest Shiny Lobstah Yet
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littlesaresare 3 years ago
"Shiny" is a Pokemon term that refers to rare Pokemon that are a different colour to normal ones.
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Linus Nilsson 3 years ago
I wonder how all the differently colored animals survives in the wild? Most animals have their color for a reason
*sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 3 years ago
kill rate than lighter bears, because light bear's prey can see them easier because they stand out a hella lot. More melanistic bears are harder to spot, especially since most of their prey has better contrast sight, so darker bears can hide and sneak around better without being seen. Lighter bears just tend to scavenge off of carcasses of animals leftover by wolves, cougars, other bears, or any other big game-hunting predators when they feel the need to shake up their diet a little. Hope this helped!! (3/3)
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LuckyL 3 years ago
Is shiny a "normal" English word for rare or is it from pokémon. I only realized half way through the post...
Patrick Millet 3 years ago
Yeah it's confusing if you don't know about pokemon. They should have explained the origin of the term
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El Dee 3 years ago
Proves there's only one animal dumb enough to care about colour to the point of racism..
M O'Connell 3 years ago
That misses the point that odd-colored animals are often subject to deleterious predation, due to their higher visibility.
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John Baker 3 years ago
"Shiny." You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Patrick Millet 3 years ago
I know this has been answered as replied to some questions but it would be nice to explain what the term "shiny" refers to. In pokemon media when a pokemon has a different color than usual it's called shiny because they sparkle when they appear on the screen. These variants are pretty rare. Some of them are subtle and some are completely different. The subreddit looks for "real life" shinies which are examples of things that are differently colored than usual.
Terd Fergison 3 years ago
A lot of these fake, fake, fake. Some are certainly real. Some used applications and filters to enhance (change) the colors.
Chaotic_pansexual 3 years ago
These are super cool. I especially loved the animals, they were beautiful
littlesaresare 3 years ago
"Shiny" is a Pokemon term that refers to rare Pokemon that are a different colour to normal ones.
Load More Replies... Linus Nilsson 3 years ago
I wonder how all the differently colored animals survives in the wild? Most animals have their color for a reason
*sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 3 years ago
kill rate than lighter bears, because light bear's prey can see them easier because they stand out a hella lot. More melanistic bears are harder to spot, especially since most of their prey has better contrast sight, so darker bears can hide and sneak around better without being seen. Lighter bears just tend to scavenge off of carcasses of animals leftover by wolves, cougars, other bears, or any other big game-hunting predators when they feel the need to shake up their diet a little. Hope this helped!! (3/3)
Load More Replies... LuckyL 3 years ago
Is shiny a "normal" English word for rare or is it from pokémon. I only realized half way through the post...
Patrick Millet 3 years ago
Yeah it's confusing if you don't know about pokemon. They should have explained the origin of the term
Load More Replies... El Dee 3 years ago
Proves there's only one animal dumb enough to care about colour to the point of racism..
M O'Connell 3 years ago
That misses the point that odd-colored animals are often subject to deleterious predation, due to their higher visibility.
Load More Replies... John Baker 3 years ago
"Shiny." You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Patrick Millet 3 years ago
I know this has been answered as replied to some questions but it would be nice to explain what the term "shiny" refers to. In pokemon media when a pokemon has a different color than usual it's called shiny because they sparkle when they appear on the screen. These variants are pretty rare. Some of them are subtle and some are completely different. The subreddit looks for "real life" shinies which are examples of things that are differently colored than usual.
Terd Fergison 3 years ago
A lot of these fake, fake, fake. Some are certainly real. Some used applications and filters to enhance (change) the colors.
Chaotic_pansexual 3 years ago
These are super cool. I especially loved the animals, they were beautiful
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