Your art is on my wall at home!! #2026MM #2020MMM #AlwaysInOurHearts
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Your art is on my wall at home!! #2026MM #2020MMM #AlwaysInOurHearts
Intergalactic Wanderer is my new band name. #2020MMM
Final Roar history:
#2025MMM Two 1 seeds, 2 seed, 8 seed
#2024MMM 1 seed, two 2 seeds, 3 seed
#2023MMM Two 1 seeds, 2 seed, 3 seed
#2022MMM Three 1 seeds and a 2 seed
#2021MMM Three 1 seeds and a 3 seed
#2020MMM 1 seed, two 3 seeds, 7 seed
#2019MMM Three 1 seeds, and a 3 seed
If you’re going to win your #2026MMM bracket, you need to hit a few upsets, but smarter to pick those carefully from the second round on, in #2020MMM Gopher Tortoise was a surprise Final Roar combatant instead of the electrifying Trumpeter Swan.
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Final Roar history:
#2024MMM 1 seed, two 2 seeds, 3 seed
#2023MMM Two 1 seeds, 2 seed, 3 seed
#2022MMM Three 1 seeds and a 2 seed
#2021MMM Three 1 seeds and a 3 seed
#2020MMM 1 seed, two 3 seeds, 7 seed
#2019MMM Three 1 seeds, and a 3 seed
If you’re going to win your #2025MMM bracket, you need to hit a few upsets, but smarter to pick those carefully from the second round on, in #2020MMM Gopher Tortoise was a surprise Final Roar combatant instead of the electrifying Trumpeter Swan. twitter.com/alyb_batgirl...
For footage of brown hyena preying on seal pups (with intensely dramatic music) check out this youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bthzDrjMNzA #2020MMM
Last night's #2020MMM was local and #FloridaMan saved the day for gopher tortoise!
I've rescued a freshwater slider that someone "released" at the beach. Such a great story and lesson. RIP cuttlefish. #TeamGT 🐢
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RACOON DOG DEFEATS PUDU!!! #2020MMM
All that is left in the now silent clearing is the raccoon
dog, licking the last of the worm from his lips. #SlimyYetSatisfying His hunger is slightly diminished but not abated. He bows his head and starts snuffling in the leaf litter again. An unaware victor. #2020MMM
Slowly chewing, the raccoon dog watches as the kodkod, having missed his mark, slinks off into bushes. The female pudu chases after her terrified offspring, and the male pudu crashed through the undergrowth, galloping in the other direction.
#2020MMM
The pudu fawn leaps away, the kodkod's paws hitting the ground instead of firm flesh. The male & female pudu bound away from each other barking in fear.
The raccoon dog looks up at the commotion, pulling the last bit of the earthworm he is slurping up out of the ground. #2020MMM
That's right folks, the kodkod is also a resident of Chiloé National Park!!!! #2020MMM
Closer.
Closer.
And closer still he creeps. Finally with a gigantic bound out of the shadows, KODKOD launches himself at the pudu fawn!!!!!
#2020MMM
He unfreezes and creeps closer. #2020MMM
From downwind the predator approaches the clearing, intent on the plumptious rump of the healthy sized snack he sees in front of him. Suddenly he freezes, paw in the air, eyes on the pair of pudus. But the pair doesn’t look up. #MindsOnOtherThings #2020MMM
Let us also cast our attention to the raccoon dog who is still
hungry, still intent on finding a meal.
He draws nearer to the clearing with the pudu.
#2020MMM
Instead let us cast our attention to the fawn who has wandered off chasing the flittering of a butterfly.
#2020MMM
Let’s draw a discrete veil over the proceedings, but rest
assured there is likely sniffing and licking and other *ahem* activities.
#2020MMM
In the clearing, the male pudu has finally found what his
whole being has been searching for.
A female pudu stands, munching on a gunera leaf with her 2 month old spotted fawn nearby. The male pudu
advances, his nostrils flaring as he picks up the enticing scents. #2020MMM
Being highly adaptable, the raccoon dog is happy in Chiloé National Park, whose vegetation though unfamiliar doesn’t feel too strange & the temperature is pleasant. He heeds the ever present call
of his belly, & heads towards a clearing, sniffing as he goes.#2020MMM
It would beHOOVE us to wish him well in his search for a mate. Pudu face a number of threats including habitat loss, getting hit by cars, & dog attacks. Consequently their numbers are declining and the IUCN has declared Pudu to be near threatened.#2020MMM
For this battle we are back in Chile, where the pudu has
#HomeHabitatAdvantage. Last battle the pudu was intent on finding a mate, but got a bit distracted by a hedgehog. But free from such frivolities, he is once again on the sniff for a lady.
#2020MMM
The raccoon dog has had easy victories involving snacks (RIP my favorite venomous shrew) and snuggling. #LivingHisBestLife. This lack of serious food so far puts him at his slender March weight of 3.3 lbs or ~13 stoats and about half the size of the pudu. #2020MMM
NEXT UP: from the Tiny Terrors division #2 seed Pudu (Pudu puda) vs. #3 seed Raccoon Dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides) #2020MMM
SAWFISH DEFEATS SARUS CRANE #2020MMM
The crane leaps off into the sky
above this strange and
dangerous habitat,
while the sawfish,
injured, but victorious,
advances #2020MMM