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Animal pictures and videos: real or AI?

Animals are the most shared pictures online and some of the easiest for AI to fake convincingly: fur, feathers and scales hide the small mistakes that give a human face away. Here is every animal picture and clip from the game so far, with the answer and the evidence for each.

A grey pigeon standing on a stone river wall, with a bridge, a clock tower and a large Gothic building behind it.

A pigeon on a river wall in front of the Houses of Parliament

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A grey pigeon standing on a rough stone ledge with blue water behind it.

A pigeon standing on a stone ledge beside water

See the proof ↗VIDEO SHARED ON XReal or AI?AI-MADE

A whale surfaces between two boats in rough seas

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Close-up of a tortoise's head and the front edge of its shell.

A wild tortoise, close up

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A close view of a brown tortoise's scaly head, dark eye, front leg and the edge of its shell, with blurred earth behind.

A tortoise's head and front leg in close-up on bare ground

See the proof ↗VIDEO SHARED ON XReal or AI?AI-MADE

A lion nuzzles a kneeling woman on a road at night

See the proof ↗VIDEO SHARED ON XReal or AI?REAL

A tiny deer squares up to a rhino in a snowy zoo enclosure

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A hedgehog standing side-on in green grass.

Hedgehog in the grass

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A small hedgehog with its front paws on a log, in a blurred woodland setting.

Hedgehog on a log

See the proof ↗VIDEO SHARED ON XReal or AI?AI-MADE

A monkey pulls a dog out of floodwater onto a floating log in the rain

See the proof ↗PICTURE SHARED ON FACEBOOKReal or AI?AI-MADE

A herd of bison forms a ring around a hiker as a wildfire burns nearby

See the proof ↗VIDEO SHARED ON YOUTUBEReal or AI?AI-MADE

A tiny camera on a jerboa's back enters a burrow full of other jerboas

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