• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      24 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.

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        20 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.