Animals My Mom Sends Me: Fake or Real? Neither Of Us Can Tell

Staying up to date on all things the internet is an absolute breeze when my kind mother directs a constant flow of memes to my inbox. Among the crunchy text posts and miscellaneous screenshots I receive from her, one thing is certain: a vast majority of those images will be of animals. However, my sweet mother has a 2.5 reading glass prescription and the text on her iPhone rests at a whopping 14-point font. This leads her to resort to predictive voice text for most of our exchanges. Obviously, when it comes to memes, she doesn't have that luxury.

Be it her trust in the internet, her vision, or some other third thing, my mom sends me indescribable 'animals' from both the internet and her daily life that challenge my personal conceptions of reality. Below are a series of texts that I have received from the iMessage animal whisperer, my mom. Some of the following screenshots include parts of our personal text messages for context.

Written By Lars Allen

01
Where It All Began

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The text that started it all. I received a photo of this bird from my mom in 2019 and it was a central talking point among many close friends for months to follow. Some of the questions this image brought up were: What?? How? and especially Why? Is this a person trapped in an owl's body? Where did my mom find this photo, and why was I the designated recipient?
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02
Getting Wild

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Here's a classic live zoo reaction photo from my mom. I'm not sure when or why she was at the zoo, but I'm glad I received this immaculate kodak moment. I wonder what a thousand words my mom would use to describe these meerkats.
03
The Invisible Man

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Shameless self-promotion, of course. In this optical illusion, my mom is highlighting how uncannily similar our little old man is to the bedding. Can you spot him?
04
Optical Owl-usion

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05
Lovebirds

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In this message from my mother, she interrupts a beautiful act of nature to make fun of the pigeons for having intercourse on her deck. I would have been so upset if she missed out on sending me this essential photo…
06
The Gullibulean Macaques Species

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Prickly Situation

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08
All Smiles Here

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