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[–] Klear@quokk.au 26 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Are you sure about the hardware?

Isn't convergent evolution amazing?

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

It says they memorize garbage schedules twice

And the drawing of the fox has its nose on its tail, not the other way around

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Klear@quokk.au 5 points 3 days ago

Foxes are furries! Who knew?

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 days ago

Vulpes is a genus of the subfamily Caninae.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulpes

Some people who are certainly smarter than we, are.

Same can be said about shiba inus. Interesting.

[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago
[–] AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

my dog covers his nose while sleeping all the time

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 4 points 3 days ago

The reason they have similar behavior is that they occupy a similar ecological niche: the small, solitary ambush predator relatively low down on the food chain. A niche where you're a hunter, but also the hunted.

[–] lessthanluigi 3 points 3 days ago

Snuggly if true!