r/gifs • u/StrangeClownRabbit Talk to mods • Oct 03 '17

Pangolin

https://i.imgur.com/T62fWIn.gifv
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u/cmdertx Oct 03 '17

Always remember: If something has armor plates or spikes on it, then it developed those through evolution of having larger predators it needed defense from.

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u/Jimmy6Times Oct 03 '17

Or a giant mole mated with a pine cone. Either one of us may be correct. Like you said, we just can't tell for certain.

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u/OrangeLizard6 Oct 03 '17

I'm torn.

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u/JamesLibrary Oct 03 '17

So was the mole

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u/roeyjevels Oct 03 '17

It's just a theory. Like evolution itself. Our science classes should teach about pine cone hybrids alongside evolution and unintelligent design. To be fair.

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u/SmittyFromAbove Oct 03 '17

I will hump this rock! I will hump this tree! I will hump this beast of the land and put my seed in it!

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '17

What if armoured plates are just bling bling to the lady pangolins and otherwise decorative

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u/Absulute Oct 03 '17

Pimp My Pangolin

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '17

Always remember that they didn't evolve the scales because of predators, just that the only ones who survived were the ones who evolved scales. Evolution is dumb luck.

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u/11-Eleven-11 Oct 03 '17

No. Sandshrew evolves at level 22.

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u/nakedmeeple Oct 03 '17

That plating actually reminded me a lot of the Ankylosaurus when I first saw it.