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I have watched the deer in Campbell River walk up the sidewalk single file, wait at a crosswalk for the road to clear, and then cross.
The animals are learning to navigate the new jungle.
But this is definitely AI with those road lines. So a fake story.
The story is fake on its face. It involves so much more than a wild animal waiting until it’s safe to cross the street. A coyote supposedly learned the difference between the crosswalk symbols, understood the connection between the button and the symbols, and learned and bothered to use them. Then, when humans gathered hours of video footage of this miracle, they only showed us a single grainy still image.
I’m disappointed in some of the comments here (not you - the whole comment section). People need to be more skeptical.
Early morning walking to work, I took a shortcut over a highway. Saw a hare that stopped, looked both ways, and then crossed when the road was clear. It got to the elevated section between the lanes (not sure what this is called in English), stopped, looked both ways, and then continued when the road was clear.
The elevated part is called an island in Australia, or if it is protected it's a pedestrian refuge
Aren't hares always looking both ways?
You mean on account of having their eyes on the sides of their heads rather than in front?
They do, and I honestly don't know how their vision works, but I would guess that they can turn their eyeballs to the front to maybe get some depth perception? At least that's what it looked like to me with this hare. It was a really long, straight road where you could see 1 km or more in both directions, and the hare was being really careful waiting until the road was completely clear in both directions.
It likely also relied a lot on directional hearing, but really was turning its head which I don't think they usually do, since they can easily turn their ears independently.
I had a deer trot out of the woods and up close to the shoulder of the road. As I'm pumping the brakes, she's waiting for me to pass while craning her neck to look down the highway, both ways. It was a bit surreal.
I think this is fake and an AI generated image. The only place I can find this story is on slop YouTube channels (just showing this screenshot), it isn't anywhere else online. The image also isn't anywhere else that the Google image search can find, and this ai detector that seems accurate in my experience finds it suspicious
It’s very clearly an AI image to me. Just look at the road lines. A double solid yellow line on the right side of the road is not something that happens in the USA. The double yellow line would be in the center of the road. And if this was a divided highway with the coyote being in the center median, then the yellow line would be a single solid line.
And what kind of pedestrian crossing looks like that?
And why is there one in the middle of nowhere
For the coyote
I do believe I used to watch a documentary about a Coyote in the desert, and quite a bit of that involved it on a paved road as well. I do believe it understood more complicated things than just pressing crosswalk buttons, if I recall it flat out knew how to place orders from an Acme Catalog an assemble quite a few fairly complex machines.
No... it's totally legit.
Here is another image of the same coyote from a different angle that I totally didn't just render on my PC in 30 seconds.
Beyond that, this, "wildlife cam," photo looks like it was taken from a phone held at face level.
The road has a solid middle stripe and a double-yellow line at the shoulder.
100% fake.
also notice how they try to sound like newspaper article without saying anything specific.
genuine news texts will say "person x from institution y says: >...<" not "biologists believe" and "lead researcher says".
All the text is AI blobs.
Lane markings all wrong.
Slop Xing
Cursed timeline 😔
The language/sentence structure and account name are also very suspicious. I want it to be real so bad though
I like to think coyotes are perfectly capable of this behavior, but they make the conscious choice to be lawless jaywalkers to stick it to the man.
Even if the picture wasn’t obvious AI, it’s not proof of the story being told. What’s being described is so implausible, you would have to be very ignorant and gullible to believe it.
From the olden times in the era before the plague (COVID) there were tales of stray dogs who had learned to utilize public transit infrastructure to move throughout a city. I believe the city in question was said to be Moscow? My memory is fuzzy, what with 2020 through 2024 being the longest continuous year I've ever experienced in my life (so FAR...).
It's crazy how 2016 feels like "a couple years ago" right now even though, concurrently, 2019 feels like "a couple decades ago" ._. maybe the doctor was right; Maybe time really is made of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff.
I miss when AI as we presently know it was not yet a thing...
I'd believe it with evidence, but this would absolutely get coverage from real journalists if it was real and directly involved academic researchers and a government agency like claimed, and that coverage doesn't seem to exist.
Coyotes are smart.
I've watched a crow check both ways for traffic before flying low across the road.
It's not implausible at all. Are you familiar with the idea of a cargo cult?
Coyotes are smart.
I saw a documentary on CBS that said otherwise. A coyote couldn't even catch a bird.
I’m familiar with humans creating cargo cults. Regarding your crow anecdote, are you familiar with the idea of anthropomorphization?
Okay, to set the scene:
I'm eating lunch. Sitting at a high top against a big wall of windows, street level. I am all about this fucking salad bar. And gawking out this window, because once it's mixed properly, it all comes out the same color.
A crow flies by.
Lands at the edge of the curb. Claws around the corner.
Waits for the taxi that was already taking the turn, inches from this bird.
Looks upstreet, looks downstreet, jets across both lanes of main road.
I'm not anthropomorphizing shit, crows are fucking Smart. They know cars are dangerous. I wish my fucking dog would figure that out
Like others said, seems fake. However it did remind me of what I saw when I went to the town in Japan with all the deer. They just cross the road whenever the fuck they want and expect cars to stop for them, and they do. It’s the deer’s town, the humans are just living in it.
Isn't there a crow in Japan that does something similar at a crosswalk?
Science meme or facebook meme?
This is science memes, AI slop does not belong here.
X. Y. Z. Every single time.
Sir you better see this, my slopometer is picking up a reading
Edit: Definitely slop, check out the yellow line and other road markings. Even a solid-white-divided two-lane one-way road, the best "reasonable" match, would only have a single yellow line.
Damn the lead researcher is brutal! Using this opportunity to shit on the interns like that.
Alas, neither the researcher, interns, not coyote exist.
It's amazing the amount of things we've never observed before suddenly having endless videos now that AI sludge is clogging up the world.
If the coyote ever does jaywalk, are they gonna issue it a ticket? 🤔
Also: Has the coyote been observed constructing engineering projects to catch a roadrunner, but they keep backfiring on him?
That’s a coyote that knows how dangerous cars are. Smart ‘yote.
