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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

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Tiny egg (the Australian Western Pygmy Possum) (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to c/taneggs@lemmy.ca

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The Australian Western Pygmy Possum is actually one of the largest pygmy possums in the world despite being no larger than a typical kiwi fruit.

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[–] Creativity@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This one has to be a baby, right?

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah, the kiwis I've seen are closer to fist-sized, while this animal seems to be finger-sized.

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 5 points 1 month ago

Can we get a proper Northern Hemisphere unit of measurement here? How many kiwis to a banana?