this post was submitted on 23 Apr 2025
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Tan Eggs

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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:


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[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 days ago (2 children)

ruminant

1. an even-toed ungulate mammal that chews the cud regurgitated from its rumen. The ruminants comprise the cattle, sheep, antelopes, deer, giraffes, and their relatives.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

Neat, I'm gonna ruminate on this new fact

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

So has hoofs a chews cud. Good to know he's kosher or halal.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago

I hate it when my potatoes grow legs and run away.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If there is a smol flood, the floofy poofie will stay dry.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

A Dutch mouse!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

They look like how I'd draw a "weird leggy mouse"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Are they considered primitive because they only have three legs?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Close relatives of the wild haggis.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What if that turns out to not be his leg?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Yeah, that isn't a 3rd leg at the back...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

Never skip leg day.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

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