Southern Tamandua are small arboreal anteaters with a long, thin nose. They are covered in pale cream fur with variable amounts of black patches around the shoulders, typically looking like they are wearing a vest or collar. #2025MMM
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Our battle takes place in the home habitat of the Ribbon Seal, on a thick ice floe in the Bearing Sea. Here a large male has hauled out of the water to allow for its annual molting of fur & skin. #2024MMM
Stoats molt twice as frequently! They are famous for molting to white (save for the black tail tip) in the winter, but even the ones at more southerly latitudes that stay brown all year molt just the same. The winter pelage may not be a different color but it is thicker and warmer! #2025MMM
Those northern weasels are the right colors for this Tuxedo Style division, but it doesn't really count as a "tuxedo" if you wear black shoes with a white linen suit. Besides, these tuxedoed animals are dressed to stand out, whereas stoats molt to white to blend in! #StoatsAsMeasurement #2025MMM
Far away in a dense, Bolivian rain forest, a female Tamandua is using her long sticky tounge to slurp up ants from a nest in a tree. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11pUGA2C-RQ) Suddenly, #MMMagic translocates the Taumandu to the sea ice! #2025MMM
Tamandua spend very little time on the ground & this one clumsily walks around searching for trees, a stranger in a strange land....or lack of land. #2025MMM
The cold air rapidly pulls the warmth from the Tamandua. The underside of its long prehensile tail lacks fur, to aid in holding tree branches. Now Tamandua curls that tail around her body to retain some warmth. #2025MMM
Ribbon Seals are typically less wary on ice than most seals, possibly due to poor vision in air (Boveng 2013). Craning his neck the seal tries to see if Tamandua is a seal pup. Pups are born white with a woolly coat of fur & only show markings when they molt at 3-5 weeks old. #2025MMM
Males seals typically are absent for birth & weaning, not showing up until May for mating season. Females often leave pups unattended on the ice (Burns 1981). Maybe there's an early mating chance if the seal waits by the fuzzy thing? The seal gets closer to investigate! #BadDads #2025MMM
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there will not be figs
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