TIL , Why Do Animals Keep Evolving into Crabs?
TIL , Why Do Animals Keep Evolving into Crabs?
Crablike bodies are so evolutionarily favorable that they’ve evolved at least five different times
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They keep evolving into pigs too.
Peccary:
Tapir:
Capybara:
Thanks, I knew there was at least one more. I feel like there's something else I'm not thinking of as well but I can't place it.
I feel like there's something else
yes, pigs
IANAS, but it sure seems like most of these pig fuckers just went fully off-road genetically as soon as their two main external sphincters formed during mitosis, and focused everything else afterward on that core concept: Eat & Shit. (punctuation optional; creative emphasis, arrangement, spelling, etc. promoted)
Guinea pigs perhaps? I didn't post them because capy represents them as Caviidae.
I think I was thinking of javelina, but they're related to peccaries.
I thought those were technically rodents?
They are, just like guinea pigs (their smaller relative). It's just that the bauplan is rather close to a pig - stubby legs, roundy body, stubby tail.
I guess that just like non-crustacean peak performance is to become crab-like, mammal peak performance is to become pig-like? Cats*, humans, dogs, we'll eventually get porcinised!
*except my cat. She's a Schweinekatze (pig-cat) so she's already pig-like.
Into two pigs? How often?
Twice
I thought it was once every other pig, thanks for the info!