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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"

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Time for shrooms! (infosec.pub)
submitted 4 months ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to c/taneggs@lemmy.ca
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[–] squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Delicious

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago

Username checks out.

[–] Chromebby@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

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

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How do they know which ones are safe to eat?

[–] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 months ago

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