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"


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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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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

A favorite childhood toy!!! Had that thing for years and years. Hell was it called?! Gods, you woke a dormant part of my brain I didn't know was offline.

[–] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I googled "fuzzy worm toy", not sure what its official name is