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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

How many of known animal species are crabs? I keep hearing about how frequently different lines of animals evolved into crabs, that they have a word for the phenomenon; Carcinisation.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

About 20% of all mammals are bats and 40% rodents

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Rodents are neat tho. Lil neverending knawing potatoes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Agreed. I have 3 of them at home

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

3 female gerbils. Pilvi, Päivi and Peppi

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

yooooo gerbil. Fast lil fellas.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Does this make beetles the crab of insects? Convergent evolution is neat.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

That’s pretty cool, I had no idea.

I was camping about a year ago in a tropical country. There was this shiny emerald green color. It really really cool.

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