Can you identify these?

[Kreskin]

Why would you need photoshop? A bear cub with mange looks creepy enough as it is. It would be easy to mistake it for something 'primate' if you didn't know what it was.

The head looks pasted on to the photo. No shadows. If the animal in the photo needs investigating I would start with the hallmark properties of photoshop before anything else. If this is just a mange bear and what we're looking at is well understood then what has to be investigated?

 

[daisygirl]

The above picture was on some science show and, forgive my memory, but I believe it was identified as a fox with mange or some type of disease.

 

[Niflmir]

Now, I pick a die out of my bag of D&D dice and I roll a six. What is the probability of rolling another six on that die? I won't give you any other information.


The real question is, have I given you enough information?

 

[daisygirl]

No, sweetie. We would need to know how many sides the die has and what the other numbers are on it.

 

[Niflmir]

No, sweetie. We would need to know how many sides the die has and what the other numbers are on it.

And that is the danger of making identifications from a fuzzy image, how do you test alternatives? Imagine if these were pictures of mushrooms and someone was asking if they were edible? I would just say: "Don't eat them! There aren't enough identifiable features to distinguish between Amanita virosa and Agaricus bisporus."

Of course, in this case without color and only thermal contrast I wouldn't be able to distinguish Boletus edulis from Psilocybe azurescens.

 

[Unforgiven]

The problems with the second and third photos, though some have been pointed out already, is that the man or woman posing as the bigfoot monster, is bipedal. The crouching is abnormal for him/her due to the structure of the hip and leg bones. Not to mention that he/she is standing flat footed.

The good news is that it's usually stupid people that try to pull off these hoaxes and even when they do their best, they're just too dumb to cover up all the tell tale signs.

snicker

 

[daisygirl]

Quite frankly, when it comes to mushrooms, I know nothing...so unless they are sold in the grocery store, I will not eat them.

As for the picture, I would not dare identify it, myself. I would, however, possibly take the word of a science team hoping that they hopefully know more than I know. I don't think we have any scientists on CC who are qualified, do we? So, as it stands, I will take the word of the science team that I heard on the TV regarding the mangy fox.

As for the other pictures, I agree with what Unf has said. He has a terrific photographer's eye and can spot things like that.

 

[Sal]

It looks as though the salt-lick has been upended... why would that be? The cub looks too small to have done that.