• Lvxferre
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        12 days ago

        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. That’s what peak performance looks like!

    • Flying Squid
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      163 days ago

      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.

      • Lvxferre
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        22 days ago

        Guinea pigs perhaps? I didn’t post them because capy represents them as Caviidae.

        • Flying Squid
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          22 days ago

          I think I was thinking of javelina, but they’re related to peccaries.

      • @expatriado
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        163 days ago

        I feel like there’s something else

        yes, pigs

      • @[email protected]
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        43 days ago

        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)