Interesting. Just like the actual closest living relative to the elephant looks like a malnourished beaver
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shuzuko@midwest.social 1 year agoI think it’s a joke about manatees having evolved from the same land-based ancestor as elephants, making them pretty literally “sea elephants”.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 1 year ago
angrystego@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yes, I was referring to the evolutionary aspects, not the ecological ones :)