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by christiangenco 600 days ago
This is neat!

I have a few thoughts:

- my intuitive sense of animals that are thin or fat is totally off. I think of cows as being fat (ex: "fat cow") but their body fat percentage is only 6%! I think of Gorillas being super fit and muscular but they're at 31%!

- I hate that I can't hit enter after changing the body fat percentage value and have it change

- on that note I'd prefer if there wasn't a "find my match" button at all—after changing the body fat percentage value the match should immediately update

- better than that would be a sliding scale of every animal and the one that matches gets highlighted and centered

- real-world pictures would be better and even better than that would be an image of the animal and a cross section/MRI of the animal where you can see the fat distribution

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Cow is not 6% body fat unless it's been starving or decided to join a body building contest. The source data is bad, probably got the data from ChatGPT.
chat gpt gave me 15-25% which seems about right when comparing with other sources.