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 โ€” 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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[โ€“] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

You got shrew love like I got dragonfly and hummingbird love! I should write the hummingbird post sometime.

Make me love! Write a long, crazy, true post about these animals. I hunger for it. HONGRY

(I'm not shitting you. I want a long, detailed and entertaining post on these beasts. Hop to it.)