Tan Eggs

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"When I'm a small prey mammal and I've evolved to survive the barren rocky landscape by optimizing into a tan egg"

For posts about animals that loosely fit the description above. While the animal does not have to hit all the requirements, it should hit some of them:

Type: Prey
Class: Mammalia (mammal)
Habitat: Barren rocky landscape
Appearance: Similar to a tan egg

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TIL the large-eared pika makes "haypiles" in their burrows to see them through the winter (en.wikipedia.org)

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And, of course, they are super cute!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I wondered that myself and assumed they were, in a very roundabout fashion, referring to whatever they called a domicile AS a burrow. It's pretty thin, though. Good catch!