Infographic comparing healthy and obese versions of twelve animals.

Apparently the obesity epidemic has reached the sea cucumber, the stick insect, and the horseshoe crab, none of whom you would have expected to require a wellness check. The infographic dutifully catalogs warning signs like 'tail looks stubby' for pangolins and 'abdomen bulges' for stick insects, treating each creature with the same grave clinical attention usually reserved for human health literature. A note at the bottom reminds readers that obesity causes serious health problems in animals just like in humans, which is genuinely true and somehow funnier for being so earnestly stated.

Jun 20, 2026

this image sits 3.6 bits from the center of the collection