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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 4 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 4 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)
#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
Troux 4 years ago
Someone has something to hide... I hope the poor fella got back in the water!
Cat-tree 4 years ago
No wonder! The remaining thresher shark species are all classified as vulnerable or threatened ;<
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Mintchinchilla 4 years ago
no, its thoughts are, PUT ME BACK OR I WILL DIE
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Mintchinchilla 4 years ago
no, its becuse of the oil in the water. NOT STUNNING!!!
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Palo Sulek 4 years ago
would it be funny or majestic showing a person suffocating under water ? no it wouldn't. go away !
Derek Watkins 4 years ago
Most sharks are endangered. To the person who caught it, put it back in the water.
TexasWoman 4 years ago
The poor thing has a scared look on him, thinking, "I wanna go back home in the water!"
June Dominguez 4 years ago
I have never seen these nor do I hope they aren’t being slaughtered!
#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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 years ago
The seal on the left is on the verge of slapping him for hogging the camera
#49
Coolest Shiny Lobstah Yet
#50
Shiny Clear Lemon Pie
#51
Spotted A White Dachshund!
#52
This Black And White Squirrel
#53
Shiny Bee Found In Western Australia
#54
This Fish Caught Off The Coast Of Hawaii
#55
Frillback Pigeon
#56
Double Shinies
#57
Shiny Snail
#58
Baby Seal!! Going Through A Blonde Fur Phase
#59
A Giraffe With Albino In Tanzania -Pic Not Mine-
#60
This Turtle
#61
Shiny Kiwi
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
Aw this fella! He has his own picture books, but sadly passed away recently :( kiwi are rare enough, i dont think ive ever heard of another albino one
#62
The Shiny Black Deer From Last Year Returned This Year And Gave Birth To A Non-Shiny Fawn. Turns Out Shiny Gene Does Not Get Passed Down
#63
1 In 30 Million...
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago
Hope they didn't kill it - and also hope they filled out a lotto ticket!
#64
Shiny Redwood
#65
Not A Shiny Visibly, We Discovered A Dilute Tortie Called Delilah Is Male Sexed Today! Tortie And Calico Males Are Extremely Rare!
#66
A White Bear
#67
Raw Blue Diamond
#68
Melanistic Emperor Penguin
#69
Shiny Kitty
#70
Rare Leucistic Alligator
#71
Literal Real Life Shiny
#72
Metallic Tarantula (Poecilotheria Metallica)
#73
Hetero Chromatic Cherry
#74
White Crow
#75
Rose Gold Female Cardinal!
#76
Fringed Leaf Frog (Cruziohyla Craspedopus)
#77
Found This On Twitter Earlier!
#78
Quite A Few Shiny Turtles In Here!
#79
A Dachshund With Vitiligo
#81
Set Of 3 Shiny Baby Gators! (Photo Credit To Graziani Reptiles Inc.)
#83
Maybe You Guys Will Enjoy This Blue Lobster I Caught Today
Soozie Poozie 4 years ago
Lobster: I'm blue. Da ba dee da ba di. Da ba dee da ba di. Da ba dee da ba di. Da ba dee da ba di.
#85
Melanistic Barn Owl
#86
Abstract Artist Guinea Pig
#87
The Cat That Knows Life
#88
Yellow-Throated Toucan With A Genetic Condition Called Leucism. Spotted In Costa Rica
#90
Half Shiny Leaf
#91
Pure Black And Pure White Kookaburras. The White Lives In The Canberra Zoo And The Black Was Found This Week In Brisbane
#92
Different-Color-Things
#93
This Cotton Candy Colored Lobster
#94
Reddit, Here Is An Albino Snail
#95
A Shiny Mlem. A Rare Black Silver Fox Hanging Out In Dublin
#96
Does This Count?
#97
This Bull Who Fell In A Paint Can
#99
Light Blue Crayfish
Summer Woodsong 4 years ago
Please let live and grow lots more in this color! They are gorgeous!
#100
Extremely Rare 1 In 10,000 White Killer Whale. Only 8 Have Ever Been Recorded
Forrest McCanless 4 years ago
Dude, you can't just imply, "Most Killers are black". Better call 'em "Orcas".
#101
A Labrador Born Green Because Of A Pigment Called Biliverdin
Toujin C'Thlu 4 years ago
I've heard about this happening to both puppies and kittens. Unfortunately, the green color doesn't last.
#102
A Cat On A Cat
#103
I Heard We Are Doing Lion Cubs For Lion King - I Went On Safari And Saw A Rare White One
#104
My Yard Has A Mole Problem, But I Never Thought I'd Find An Albino! Chance Of 1:100,000
Zoe Hoesley 4 years ago
Me and my older brother caught a mole once , we named him Stewart , he was good mole but we had to put him back =(, we miss you Stewart
#105
Not One, But Two Shiny Iguanas
#106
Gold Canadian Goose (Not My Photo)
#107
Shiny Gorilla!!!
Toujin C'Thlu 4 years ago
His name was Snowflake, and he was pretty famous https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowflake_(gorilla)
#108
This Handsome White Squirrel
#109
Shiny Crow That Lives In My Neighborhood
#110
Meet Lucky, The Ultra-Rare Cotton Candy Lobster Who Is 1 In 100 Million
#111
Does This Count ?
Capelli rosa e patate 4 years ago
Yes indeed it do! Someone tell Barbie we found her fire hydrant 😂
#113
Purple Roliepolie
#114
Pink Police Cruiser
#116
One In Two Million Blue Lobster
#118
Metallica’s Ride The Lightning With The Green Misprint. Originally Supposed To Be Blue But Several Hundred Copies Were Misprinted In Green And Are Very Rare To Come By
#119
A Pink Grasshopper We Came Across Whilst Doing Research In The Pyrenees
#120
Orange Tp!
#121
Shiny Starbucks - Kyoto, Japan
#122
A Frosted Flake Made Completely Out Of Sugar
#123
My Wife Said There Was A 7-Eleven In The Town Center. Drove By It The First Time Before I Saw It
#124
Completely White Moth
#125
At New York Botanical Gardens
#127
Beautiful Lobster We Caught Today
#128
Silver Penny
#130
This Fanta Is In The Wrong Colored Bottle
#131
A Golden Trout vs. A Normal One
#132
My Local Taco Bell
#133
Just Some Trash Bags
#134
This Shiny McDonald's
#136
Shiny Mario Bros
#137
I Caugth An Ablino Catfish Last Summer
#139
This Mcdonalds Sign In Salzburg, Austria
#140
Stop! But If You Really Want To Go I Guess That’s Fine
#141
Grey Stitch At Mall
Zoe Hoesley 4 years ago
Because that Makes sense . ‘Hey Gary what color is stitch?’ ‘Idk bob gray?’
#142
This Target We Saw In Tennessee
Sarcasm101 4 years ago
Yeah that’s the brand new target here. It’s super nice idk why they changed the color though. Thanks collierville lol
#143
“Welcome To Mcdonald’s, Would You Like To Make A Deposit Or A Withdrawal?”
Zoe Hoesley 4 years ago
I feel like this is wear politicians go do settle their debates over some nuggies
#144
Shiny Duck I Spotted At Work Today
#145
I Guess This One Counts
#148
1/4096 Odd And I've Finally Found My Shiny Squirtle!
#149
This Bottle Of Maker's Mark
#150
Another Shiny McDonald's
#151
Shiny Fizzy Cola Bottle
#153
This Black McDonald's Arches
#157
Green “Do Not Enter” Sign
#158
A Shiny Burger King
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littlesaresare 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 years ago
Proves there's only one animal dumb enough to care about colour to the point of racism..
M O'Connell 4 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 4 years ago
"Shiny." You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Patrick Millet 4 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 4 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 4 years ago
These are super cool. I especially loved the animals, they were beautiful
littlesaresare 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 years ago
Proves there's only one animal dumb enough to care about colour to the point of racism..
M O'Connell 4 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 4 years ago
"Shiny." You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Patrick Millet 4 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 4 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 4 years ago
These are super cool. I especially loved the animals, they were beautiful
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