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[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 77 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] SnekZone@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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

Source (Youtube)

[–] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] yakko@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago

Bob Fossil!

Oh wait no, that's a Boosh reference

[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 11 points 1 week 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?

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 days ago
[–] fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] loldog191@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 week ago

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

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The Yi qi.

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

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

Its okay lil guy, I don't know either

[–] Teienkawi@beehaw.org 3 points 6 days 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 week ago (1 children)
[–] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 2 points 1 week ago

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

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

Either a bat or a hyper-evolved lesbian

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

Paleo Kabi-Lamius