Ratatosk the Norse Squirrel God™️

I’ve been away too long. Or not long enough?

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A grey squirrel says “Squirrels will never let you down.”

I am not asking for carnage. I am expecting a long-overdue #TeamRodent Champion in #2026MMM!
🐿️🐀🐹🏆🐭🐁🦫

“Plant blindness” was the term introduced in 1999 by the botanists and educators JH Wandersee (GREAT NAME) & EE Schussler to describe what they saw as a pervasive insensitivity to the green environment & a general neglect of plants on the part of biology education"(Thomas et al. 2022) #2026MMM

EASTERN GORILLA OUTLASTS SPECTACLED BEAR!!! #2026MMM

Gorilla looking over his shoulder, bounces off a tree trunk, accidentally STAYING ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE!!! #2026MMM

It’s just a really fat raccoon. #2026MMM 🦝

Spectacled Bear

Mountain Gorilla

LAST BATTLE OF THE NIGHT! Seed #8 Spectacled Bear (Tremarctos ornatus) vs Seed #9 Eastern Gorilla (Gorilla beringei) #2026MMM

Promises made, promises kept. #2026MMM

ARABIAN ORYX DEFEATS EURASIAN LYNX! #2026MMM

Eurasian Lynx has little hope of effectively wrestling the bovid down with a throat-crushing kill bite.
Bruised but savvy,
LYNX QUITS THE FIELD OF BATTLE!
#2026MMM

Oryx walking the sand dunes

Gorgeous spotty felid

Next Up: #7-seed Arabian Oryx (Oryx leucoryx) vs #10-seed Eurasian Lynx (Lynx lynx) #2026MMM

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“woop woop that’s the sound of the police…” #2026MMM

Do stoats actually have hearts? #2026MMM

Next up! 6-seed Roan Antelope (Hippotragus equinus) VS 11-seed Borean Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) #2026MMM

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Sloths are lovers, not fighters. They can’t be bothered with aggressive types. #2026MMM 🦥 💚🦛

Swimming Sloth Searches For Mate | Planet Earth II | BBC Earth YouTube video by BBC Earth

But sloths are good swimmers! Though surprised at his suddenly aquatic surroundings, Sloth begins to paddle. (Britton 1941) #2026MMM
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Next Up! 3rd seed Common Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) vs 14th seed Brown-Throated Sloth (Bradypus variegatus). #2026MMM

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This is why no Capybara can ever win, too.

The Anteater’s fatal weakness? No emoji for his mojo. 🦒 #2026MMM

GIRAFFE OUTLASTS GIANT ANTEATER!!! #2026MMM

Gorgeous Giraffe

Gorgeous Giant Anteater

NEXT UP: No. 5 Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis) vs. No. 12 Giant Anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) #2026MMM

An Indian Rhino relaxing in water in Chitwan National Park

If you’re not intimidated by the #RealUnicorn then you aren’t alive! 🦏 #2026MMM

a man and a woman are standing next to each other and the man says i got my mind on my money ALT: a man and a woman are standing next to each other and the man says i got my mind on my money

Got my mind on my mammals, and mammals on my money. #2026MMM

NEXT UP: No. 4 Indian Rhino (Rhinoceros unicornis) vs. No. 13 Chital (Axis axis) #2026MMM

Tilting sideways, but NOT onto the marine debris, Humpback Whale's wake pushes the floating marine debris and Red Squirrel... BEYOND THE FIELD OF BATTLE! #2026MMM

Humpback Whale with the bedroom eyes.

HUMPBACK WHALE WAVES AWAY RED SQUIRREL!! #2026MMM

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Well, naturally, who wouldn’t want to stop and enjoy looking at a beautiful squirrel? #2026MMM #TeamRodent

Swimming in a circle, the Humpback Whale dives and then surfaces in a "SPY HOP" rising vertically above the water's surface to bringing her face and eye above water level, spinning to look at the squirrel on the marine debris.... (Patton & Lawless 2021) #2026MMM

FSHHHHHFT!!! Humpback Whale surfaces aside the squirrel, exhaling through her spout and sending rippling sea water into the debris raft... (Fabietti et al. 2024) #2026MMM