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"When I'm a small prey mammal and I've evolved to survive the barren rocky landscape by optimizing into a tan egg"

For posts about animals that loosely fit the description above. While the animal does not have to hit all the requirements, it should hit some of them:

Type: Prey
Class: Mammalia (mammal)
Habitat: Barren rocky landscape
Appearance: Similar to a tan egg

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submitted 11 months ago by w3dd1e@lemm.ee to c/taneggs@lemmy.ca

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24585636

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[–] mogoh@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago (4 children)

What kind of animals are that?

[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Looks like a degu

Think giant gerbil

[–] w3dd1e@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

I believe they are gophers. They could be groundhogs. The original post doesn’t say.

[–] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

I think they're prairie dogs

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

Some sort of ground squirrel, perhaps?