this post was submitted on 01 May 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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Heart rate? 1,500 beats per minute.

Breathing? 600 times a minute.

It eats twice its body weight daily just to stay alive.

Clicks to hunt. Whiskers as radar.

Jumps, darts, devours — all in the blink of an eye.

It may only live two years, but in that time, it's a lightning bolt with teeth.

Tiny. Fierce. Unstoppable.

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[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 1 points 2 days ago

Science? Just metric, I can tell when something is bigger than 2cm³