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#tbf I think he’d like all apes and probably prefer orangutans/chimps but I’m saving you the extensive lecture on great apes
ssruis
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Aside from the noble platypus I also feel like rui would really enjoy these animals:
Mola mola/Sunfish
Anteater
Echidna
Kiwi
Kākāpō
Axolotl
Horseshoe crab
Gibbon
#i have reasoning for all of these beyond ‘they look funny’ trust
#mola mola are just. so fucking weird man. they’re so odd. their back fin grows back on itself? they’re so rigid it reduces drag
#but they ‘swim’ really slowly? they swim similar to how a bird flies. just sideways. largest bony fish. they bask to get enough warmth
#to allow them to dive super deep to forage for food (cold blooded so they’d be fucked without doing that)
#anteaters are interesting. did you know they’ve (the giant ones) killed jaguars and humans before
#because they walk on the knuckles to keep the huge knives on their feet sharp and their threat response
#is basically just ‘swipe blindly (poor vision) at whatever comes close until it stops coming back’
#echidnas are fellow monotremes (only ones besides the platypus) and are just as strange
#they also have electrosensors (~2000 compared to the platypus’s 40000) and a similarly low body temp
#(second lowest of all mammals after. u guessed it. the platypus) and are actually decent swimmers despite looking Like That
#kiwis are weird beasts.
#massive eggs compared to their body size. rely more on scent than sight because their eyes are so tiny and under developed.
#kākāpō are the heaviest parrot and also the only flightless parrot. they also kinda resemble owls face wise? and they’re green.
#evolved with no natural predators and are currently being fucked over by invasive rats
#axolotl is self explanatory
#although to give a fun fact the wild type is naturally brown. the fun colored ones would be easy prey in the wild.
#& they’re capable of going through metamorphosis (like how tadpoles -> frogs) if exposed to the necessary hormones
#but they don’t produce it on their own
#horseshoe crabs despite having crab in the name are more closely related to spiders/ticks/scorpions than crabs
#& gibbons are included because 1 I’m biased towards my favorite animal 2 only species of lesser ape. live in family units.
#tbf I think he’d like all apes and probably prefer orangutans/chimps but I’m saving you the extensive lecture on great apes
#here at ssruis we strive to be educational.
#biology cool. despite me dropping out of the program (treated as premed at my college and I could NOT do chem let alone orgchem/physics) but
#i liked biolab/the units abt animals ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
#rui
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