How do you tell a fat squirrel from a wombat?
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All bats are wombats but not all wombats are bats
Friendly reminder that wombats are BIG
Wow, it looked so small on the OPs picture.
They start off little
there is no such thing as a vampire wombat
the main sequence
hahahah
The evolution of wombats chart sent me
if a wombat is large enough it might collapse into a black bat
No vampire wombats that we know of.
It's entirely possible that every scientist that went to study them is now a bloodless dessicated corpse slowly turning to jerky under the Australian sun.
Nah, see, they're native to southern Siberia. That's why people don't find them: you'd never know to look for wombats in Siberia.
No vampire wombats? I'll have to fix that.
Vampire wombats were destroyed by the drop bears long before the english came.
Wombats actually are true bats. What we think of as bats is a quirky of convergent evolution. Nature is wild!
Wombats and cricket bats both
A stickbug isnt a true bug
Is it a true stick, or is the whole thing one big LIE?
They technically a member of the ambulatory foliage genus, yes.
Ah, so a technicality, eh...?
They're flying insects
So it's more accurate to call it StickFeature?
No, stickinsect
Do species really exist? Aren't we all just vibrations in the cosmos?
Right but species are a kind of vibe
But wombbats are. While cockroaches crawl into the urethra of the penis, wombbats fly into vaginas, then crawl into the womb through the cervix, where they'll nest.
What!? And then next you'll tell me they are not wombs either?! I don't believe you
Wow, never knew wombats were that far off the main sequence of evolution. What happens when then run out of hydrogen?
Next thing you’ll tell me an eggplant is not an egg??
i mean the whole order is called VOMBATIFORMES.