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:
- Type: Prey
- Class: Mammalia (mammal)
- Habitat: Barren rocky landscape
- Appearance: Similar to a tan egg
Origin:
- Screenshot over on [email protected]
- Tumblr post
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Image source: https://www.naturepl.com/stock-photo-north-american-pika-sleeping-colorado-usa-nature-image01039221.html
Caption - North American pika sleeping, Colorado, USA Photographer - John Cancalosi Online Date - 24/4/04
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On behalf of all of us here, I send a sincere thanks to all you beautiful Lemmings! We hope you know how grateful we are that you exist.
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Blends in. Disappears. With any luck, he's found the grail already.
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Does dwarf planet Haumea, which I would argue hits both habitat and appearance criteria, count? 😊
(sh.itjust.works)
ID: image of a tan, egg shaped dwarf planet
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Caption:
A juvenile viscacha stretches out after a nap in Chile’s Atacama Desert.
Learn about the animal: wikipedia.org/wiki/Viscacha
Photographer:
Image Source: joelsartore.com/ani012-00016
Joel Sartore is an award-winning photographer, speaker, author, conservationist, and the 2018 National Geographic Explorer of the Year. He is a regular contributor to National Geographic Magazine, and an Eagle Scout. His hallmarks are a sense of humor and a Midwestern work ethic.
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