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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Maybe it evolved from a predatory ancestor and didn't get selected for different position of the eyes?

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

We know from Big Bird's extended family that his species has a wide spread of individual variation, and given that none of them reside in the wild none of them are likely to suffer predation due to what would otherwise be a mal-adaptation, providing a springboard for even more genetic variation from generation to generation.

Just look at how wildly different looking specific humans can be from one another, even within a single community.