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coprolite-posting · 2 months ago

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the bird is the craziest one here and it's not even a contest tbh

"what if it was curly" - humans

(selkirk rex cat, angora goat, astrex rabbit, curly coated retriever, mangalitsa pig, texel mouse, american curly horse, texel guinea pig, frillback pigeon)

#lil guy's Skin Stuff™ is different from the others on a literally molecular level. & its still pulling this kinda trick #upon cursory research the curl is (probably?) due to uneven feather growth. apparently in mammals- or at least humans #but id imagine its rougly the same #textural differences are due to which part of the keratin helices ''attach'' to one another which influences changes in the total shape?#idk about genetics. it seems like various mutations could produce curled fur in animals- i.e. its not One Thing in common #so much as maybe inherent to how stuff is formed that there's a possibilty it could go 1 way or the other #idk. googling this shit kinda sucked ass ngl #hopefully i did an ok job communicating that i dont think one follicle pattern or another on. any given species. has inherent 'superiority'#even a mutation where u Just Die is literally random chance + evolutionary ''fitness'' is contextual #it doesnt matter bro... we can take care of each other 👍#to say less: humans are the most well-studied species. no surprise. ''hair'' v. ''fur'' is mostly nomenclature but the former gets results #some of which are just thinly-veiled racism. shut the fuck up #to be clear: i AM humans. the 3rd-person shit is probably from writing in academia.#idk how accurate any of this even is . but! the pidge IS the only reptile here. which is neat #tjank u animals i love u animals.#upon further research it seems like its... maybe not clear? how much of the pigeon's Thing is micro v macroscopic #although they did (probably) id (some of) the causatory genes #& for macroscopic- the feathers would be ''uneven'' in like. lengths per piece rather than growth (i.e. completion) rate. maybe #birds r on some cocmelon shit.#& its actually awrsome????#but yeah um. they have a different type of keratin AND that shit's gotta grow branches in a tube #so there are many reason why feathers are different from fur 👍

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