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[โ€“] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I was always amazed by how utterly stupid an organism can be. And that thing survives somehow in nature.

[โ€“] Irelephant@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Not anymore ๐Ÿ˜ฌ, they're extinct in the wild.

[โ€“] lnxtx@feddit.nl 3 points 1 week ago

No way!

Wikipedia suggests montane guinea pig as a wild ancestor.

[โ€“] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Piggies are extingt in the wild?!

[โ€“] Irelephant@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

There is some, as @lnxtx@feddit.nl pointed out, but they are very different to the domesticated guinea pig.

[โ€“] threelonmusketeers 2 points 1 week ago

Isn't that kind of like saying "poodles are extinct in the wild", when there were never wild poodles in the first place?

[โ€“] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

As to be expected tbh

[โ€“] lnxtx@feddit.nl 2 points 1 week ago

Makes sense, you're right.