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

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Time for shrooms! (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/taneggs

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Delicious

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Username checks out.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Aww. Seeing them next to a mushroom really puts their size into perspective

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Do they eat mushrooms? Just checked. Yes. I had no idea.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How do they know which ones are safe to eat?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Probably either their mom teaches them to tell mushrooms apart or just pure instinct.