Spot the Dassie

[hrogers]

Dassie is napping on the rocks - See if you can spot it !!

[SAfish]

Got it! I am not too fond of heights like this. 

[John F]

What's a Dassie?

[SAfish]

It is a Rock Rabbit.

[John F]

Ah... thanks!

[SAfish]

I once ate Dassie and it tasted like lamb. 

[Ziggy]

and its nearest relative is......? Who knows the surprising answer?

[SAfish]

I do!   

[Ziggy]

SAfish got it right by PM!

[MIKE PIKE]

um ..... elephant.. ??

[Toppie]

Must be a cane rat?

[MIKE PIKE]

Nah its the elephant.

[Toppie]

Nah its the elephant.

Heard that one, but must be from around 7 trillion years ago. Like our closest relative is supposed to be the chimp which we evolved from, but if we evolved from them how come chimps aren't extinct and still around?
 
If an elephant is related to a Dassie something must have gone seriously wrong somewhere down the line.
 
I say blame the Americans.

[John F]

Like our closest relative is supposed to be the chimp which we evolved from, but if we evolved from them how come chimps aren't extinct and still around?

Nope... we share a common ancestor... otherwise chimps would still be turning into humans?!

I say blame the Americans.

 
 

[SAfish]

I say blame the Americans.

[MIKE PIKE]

      thank goodness something went wrong , can't imagine a 4 ton dassie jumping around on the rocks behind you while you trying to concentrate on the fishing .... still not sure where the dassie is in the picture , maybe just below the bushes on the flat piece of rock , more or less in center of photo.. .

[Toppie]

Like our closest relative is supposed to be the chimp which we evolved from, but if we evolved from them how come chimps aren't extinct and still around?

Nope... we share a common ancestor... otherwise chimps would still be turning into humans?!

I say blame the Americans.

 

Thats exactly one of my arguments against the evolution theory, I dont share the same ancestory as apes and neither did I or my forefathers evolve from the sea/water, we were also never single cell amoeba's or pond scum, and I have no common DNA from people who hail from the Karoo!
 
@ Mike, you right, imagine a drilling that a 4 ton Dassie can give you while fishing from the rocks   

[REEFMAN]

Like our closest relative is supposed to be the chimp which we evolved from, but if we evolved from them how come chimps aren't extinct and still around?

Nope... we share a common ancestor... otherwise chimps would still be turning into humans?!

I say blame the Americans.

 

Thats exactly one of my arguments against the evolution theory, I dont share the same ancestory as apes and neither did I or my forefathers evolve from the sea/water, we were also never single cell amoeba's or pond scum, and I have no common DNA from people who hail from the Karoo!
 

 

[Willie]

No cant spot no dassie.

[Hooch]

It is a Rock Rabbit.

No its not. Rock rabbit is completely different. Its a hyrax.