Living is a big city is fun and very convenient, but it lacks the wild animals that are fun to encounter. So when I visit the rural village of my ancestors, I often end up getting excited over a random toad that happened to hop into view.
I don't know what species it is, but I did like how it stuck to the tactic of pretending to be a rock even after I got my phone right up in it's face, so here you go Fediverse, have a random Polish toad.
I'd like to take a moment to appreciate how Linux keyboard layouts fill unused combinations like AltG+K for Polish with characters that might be useful (the ellipsis character in this case). On Windows if I wanted to insert °, …, ™ or a non-breaking space I'd have to memorise its alt-code or create a custom layout. (Which is about as well supported and easy to do as you'd expect from Windows customisation.) On Linux I just type AltG+Shift+0, AltG+K, AltG+Shift+T or AltG+Space respectively, because they're part of my layout out-of-the-box.
(Linux layout in first picture, Windows layout in second)
The body / fore limb / hind limb / tail proportions and the supposed posture of the T. Rex are very suspiciously similar to those of hopping animals like kangaroos or hopping mice.
The hopping style of movement tends to evolve in land animals that have to efficiently travel relatively large distances between spots where food and/or water can be found, which is why it's most prevalent in arid climates.
The T. Rex was a scavenger specialised in feeding on corpses of other large dinosaurs, which are scarce and usually far in-between by nature.
thump. thump. thump. thump. THUMP. THUMP. THUMP.
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