the world’s smallest carnivore is called the “least weasel” i’m dying but like if it’s the smallest carnivore then it sure is the least amount of weasel you can have
Look at him: this is absolutely the least amount of weasel you can have
We evolved from something like this btw (before monkeys)
(lemurs and tree shrews, going backward, would be a better analogue, nothing similar to the stages before that survives but shrews and then some kind of possums would be the least worst, but still bad, analogies for what comes earlier)
Humans, monkeys, and tree shrews are both in Euarchonta, weasels are all the way down there in Carnivora.
Like, of course our proto-primate ancestor was “something like” a weasel in that both are mammals, but only in the same sense that it was “something like” a whale or a bat – everything is like everything else at some level of analysis. Weasels are specialized hunters of large (for them) preys, proto-primates were frugivore-insectivores and specialized tree-climbers; all they have in common are a generic “small mammal” look whi
… OK, OK, I’ll concede, I am being unreasonably pedantic. It’s pretty obvious you were talking about overall appearance. Well, I don’t tag these posts “pedantry” for nothing. If I’m being too annoying, I’ll bow out.
