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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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.”
A Really Shiny Beautiful Creature
Meet Narnia, A Rare Two Faced Cat
The Blue Java Banana Taste Like Vanilla Ice-Cream
A Partially Melanistic Genetic Variation Called A Cross Fox
Half Albino Peacock
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)
Australian Veterinary Clinic Rescues A Golden Possum. They Named Him Pikachu
“Zeus” The Blind Owl Has Beautiful Stars In Its Eyes
Pet The Darkness
This Alabaster Kitten Named Olive Has Half Brown And Half Blue Eyes Due To A Rare Genetic Condition Named Sectorial Heterochromia Iridis!
Oh my god! I would die a happy couch potato if I could have those eyes
My Hair Is Half Blonde Half Brunette. Including Eyebrows And Eyelashes
Extremely Rare White Baby Reindeer
White Dog With A Black Head
(Absolutely no racism intended) Why are there so many black things in this post?
What Is This Little Golden Beetle? Maine
Iridescent Clouds In Siberia
This Is An Albino Wood Turtle , These Are One Of The Rarest Turtle Morphs In The World
Atelopus Barbotini, A Purple Toad
“It’s Not Just A Phase, Mom”
Half Red Half White Flower
If a guy found one of these for me I would date him on the spot no question
My “Black Magic” Petunias From This Summer
This Cat Has A Rare Red Fur Pattern
Wow this looks so much like my last cat, rest her soul. Every summer she turned rusty red like this, it was quite beautiful.
Cat tax. ijqga1q.jpg 
A 1 In 2,000,000 Blue Lobster!
iM bLuE dA bOo dEe dA bOo dIe dA bOo deE dA bOo diE da bOo dEe dA bOo diE
Shiny Ginger Seal Pup In Russia
The seal on the left is on the verge of slapping him for hogging the camera
Shiny Clear Lemon Pie
Note: this post originally had 160 images. It’s been shortened to the top 50 images based on user votes.
I don't get why it says that they are shiny. They are not shiny..?
"Shiny" is a Pokemon term that refers to rare Pokemon that are a different colour to normal ones.
Ah, so it's something nobody over 12 would get, then...
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Thank you for the knowledge. It's f*****g stupid in this context.
It's a Pokemon Go term. In that game, the Pokémons that are differently colored than other Pokémons of their species are caled shiny.
Not just Pokémon Go. Shiny Pokémon have been around since 1999.
Shiny pokemon have been around LONG before Pokemon GO
shiny pokemon is term used long before pokemon
GeeGh11 what
johnny-somm haha
GeeGh11 ?
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So many 'rare' blue lobsters...
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There was actually one in Oregon a while back that was half blue half reddish...and was about twice the size of normal lobsters.
Carol Emory what
I wonder how all the differently colored animals survives in the wild? Most animals have their color for a reason
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)
That was some reply!
with what you'd be seeing just looking down into the ocean, because the farther you look down, the darker it gets because, yk, light n' s**t. And again, it's the same as the penguin's predators. If you're say, a seal, looking below you for a penguin, your eye might skip over it because the half of its body facing you is darker, and blends in better with the ocean. So back to my main point, that's why lighter/albino/leuistic bears rely mainly of diets consisting of mostly fish. More melanistic bears on the other hand do better on land, and will have a diet consisting of a higher percent of meat than their counterparts, like deer or other big game that they can take down. "Spirit bears", extremely light/leuistic/albino brown/black bears have I believe it was a 50% more? Successful fish-catching rate than darker bears, because the lighter bears are harder to see from under the water's surface. On the opposite side of the spectrum, darker/more melanistic bears have a MUCH higher kill (2/3)
ooh! I can answer this, at least with bears!! Albino brown/black bears can usually live on a diet consisting more of fish than meat compared to melanistic or regular brown/black bears. That's because when you're below the water's surface, lighter colored animals are harder to spot than darker animals. That's also kind of why so many marine animals are darker on the "top" half of their body, and lighter on the "bottom" half. Take penguins for example. Penguins are both predator and prey animals, so they NEED camouflage to survive. If you're a penguin's prey and you're below them, you aren't going to notice them (unless you have an eagle's eye lmao), because the half of their body that's facing you is light colored, so it blends in with the surface of the water. Same goes if you're a penguin's predator looking up; you can't see the penguin unless you really try. If you're a penguin's prey ABOVE the penguin, its "top" half is black, and therefore darker, so it blends in better with (1/3)
I don't get why it says that they are shiny. They are not shiny..?
"Shiny" is a Pokemon term that refers to rare Pokemon that are a different colour to normal ones.
Ah, so it's something nobody over 12 would get, then...
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
Thank you for the knowledge. It's f*****g stupid in this context.
It's a Pokemon Go term. In that game, the Pokémons that are differently colored than other Pokémons of their species are caled shiny.
Not just Pokémon Go. Shiny Pokémon have been around since 1999.
Shiny pokemon have been around LONG before Pokemon GO
shiny pokemon is term used long before pokemon
GeeGh11 what
johnny-somm haha
GeeGh11 ?
This comment has been deleted.
So many 'rare' blue lobsters...
This comment has been deleted.
There was actually one in Oregon a while back that was half blue half reddish...and was about twice the size of normal lobsters.
Carol Emory what
I wonder how all the differently colored animals survives in the wild? Most animals have their color for a reason
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)
That was some reply!
with what you'd be seeing just looking down into the ocean, because the farther you look down, the darker it gets because, yk, light n' s**t. And again, it's the same as the penguin's predators. If you're say, a seal, looking below you for a penguin, your eye might skip over it because the half of its body facing you is darker, and blends in better with the ocean. So back to my main point, that's why lighter/albino/leuistic bears rely mainly of diets consisting of mostly fish. More melanistic bears on the other hand do better on land, and will have a diet consisting of a higher percent of meat than their counterparts, like deer or other big game that they can take down. "Spirit bears", extremely light/leuistic/albino brown/black bears have I believe it was a 50% more? Successful fish-catching rate than darker bears, because the lighter bears are harder to see from under the water's surface. On the opposite side of the spectrum, darker/more melanistic bears have a MUCH higher kill (2/3)
ooh! I can answer this, at least with bears!! Albino brown/black bears can usually live on a diet consisting more of fish than meat compared to melanistic or regular brown/black bears. That's because when you're below the water's surface, lighter colored animals are harder to spot than darker animals. That's also kind of why so many marine animals are darker on the "top" half of their body, and lighter on the "bottom" half. Take penguins for example. Penguins are both predator and prey animals, so they NEED camouflage to survive. If you're a penguin's prey and you're below them, you aren't going to notice them (unless you have an eagle's eye lmao), because the half of their body that's facing you is light colored, so it blends in with the surface of the water. Same goes if you're a penguin's predator looking up; you can't see the penguin unless you really try. If you're a penguin's prey ABOVE the penguin, its "top" half is black, and therefore darker, so it blends in better with (1/3)