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This is an absolutely ridiculous list for Snowflake #10, “Five things”—in particular, five photos that were amusingly misidentified by Siri on my phone. I suppose I can also count it for Snowflake #14, “Try something new,” since I just figured out how to upload images to Dreamwidth.
So, background information for some of these photos: I live in a neighborhood that has a large population of feral peacocks (more correctly, peafowl), although this is definitely not a part of the world to which they are native. Mostly they seem very chill about being near humans. Their reaction to having their pictures taken is typically something along the lines of, “Oh, did you get my good side?” As a result, I have a very large collection of such pictures.
A year or so ago, a new feature on my phone’s camera started offering to identify plants, animals, etc., that showed up in photos. Let’s see how it did:
Yes, this is in fact a peahen, not a hawk. Before I lived here, I had never thought of peafowl as birds that could fly, or perch in trees, but they actually do. I love the way they look while perching--their legs are not visible at all, so their bodies just basically look like pillows plopped on top of the branch, fence, or whatever. Then when they decide to come down, it's endearingly awkward: they spend a long time peering nervously at the ground from different angles before they finally make the leap.
Uh, let’s try that again:
This is a group of chicks--their mom was there too, but just a bit of her tail is showing at the upper left. I’m not sure whether Siri is attempting to identify the peachicks or the grass, but either way, great job!
One more time—surely it can’t miss this one:
Nice try.
Well, possibly it can do better with mammals than birds? I kind of feel like this next photo is cheating, because it’s not a picture I took myself. I downloaded it from the internet so I could use it for something at work. But I did enjoy the phone’s identification:
Nailed it! (Yes, I needed a picture of a hamster for work. For Reasons.)
And finally, the absolute best of these photo identifications:
Classic. (This is my daughter S in her favorite hat.)
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Date: 2024-02-01 03:49 am (UTC)The cypress one is baffling.
That's neat that you have free-roaming peafowl. Do they scream? We have them at the zoo here -- not, I think, on purpose, they're from a population of feral peacocks that the zoo looks after, because they're fun to look at and visiting toddlers like chasing them. But they stay inside the zoo, presumably because that's where the food is. Anyway, they make a lot of noise, which has somewhat tarnished my enjoyment of them -- they look so elegant! And then they start yelling to rival the siamangs.
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Date: 2024-02-01 10:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-02-04 10:19 pm (UTC)Oh dear XD
To me they sound like someone shrieking "help!" in an exaggerated Southern accent, and somehow in a sarcastic tone, as if they're making fun of someone else yelling for help. Like, "Hay-ulp! I'm Blanche Dubois!"
OK, that's an incredible analogy, and I'm going to have to listen for that the next time I'm around our zoo ones XD
(Also eep at people thinking it might be a person screaming.)
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Date: 2024-02-02 03:45 am (UTC)The tiniest cat.
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Date: 2024-02-04 12:02 am (UTC)The "cat" one is just awesome.
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Date: 2024-02-03 06:15 pm (UTC)no subject
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