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[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 80 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It is believed fingerbois used their long, flexible fingers as whips to scare predators.

[–] SnekZone@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

No, those are to siphon out dreams through the ears of sleeping orphans, silly ^^

Source (Youtube)

[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 7 points 1 month ago

You can tell it is because of the way that it is

[–] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] yakko@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago

Bob Fossil!

Oh wait no, that's a Boosh reference

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago
[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A bat, because I had a toy bat that was dissectable when I was a kid and the skeleton looked like that. Also, wtf else would it be?

[–] Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 5 points 1 month ago
[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The Yi qi.

Because it's clearly a bat but close enough to the yi qi to make it funny.

[–] fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] loldog191@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 month ago

No it isn't. Bats are wooden and used for baseball. Duh doi

[–] ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago
[–] Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

Its okay lil guy, I don't know either

[–] MTK@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Either a bat or a hyper-evolved lesbian

[–] Teienkawi@beehaw.org 2 points 1 month ago

An extraterrestrial turkey fetus.

If you ask old mcdonald what the cow told him about space after jumping over the moon the things it saw. he'll make sense of this.

[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 1 points 1 month ago

I’m in awe of your statistical operations on mammals.

[–] edinbruh@feddit.it 1 points 1 month ago

Paleo Kabi-Lamius

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago