Next Up: 4-seed Cape Buffalo (Syncerus caffer caffer) vs. 13-seed Moonrat (Echinosorex gymnura) #2025MMM - ThreadSky

chloejosefson.bsky.social • 23 hours ago

Next Up: 4-seed Cape Buffalo (Syncerus caffer caffer) vs. 13-seed Moonrat (Echinosorex gymnura) #2025MMM

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mrspope.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Several of my students have said that if the Buffalo loses, they’re flipping desks in my room tomorrow. So… please win! 🙏

chloejosefson.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Hope there will be no desk flipping tomorrow!

chloejosefson.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Cape Buffalo are horned, even-toed ungulates with males weighing ~835kg/1840 lbs w/ shoulders ~1.7m/5.6 ft high. Buffalo is black/dark brown and adult males have large horns that are very close together at the base (called a "boss") and curve upwards at the ends reaching ~1.3m/4.3ft wide. #2025MMM

stoatamatic.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Weight: 3.80 kilostoats
Height: 6.80 stoats
Horn width: 3.82 stoatlengths
#StoatsAsMeasurement #2025MMM

chloejosefson.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Moonrats are small (females weigh ~2kg/4.4lbs) & are not rodents but belong to the family Erinaceidae (w/ hedgehogs). Moonrat is mostly black with head&shoulders covered in white/grey fur except for black eye patches; a Bornean subspecies is white w/ black guard hairs (Wilson et al. 2006) #2025MMM

stoatamatic.bsky.social•22 hours ago

9.09 stoats #StoatsAsMeasurement #2025MMM

ratatosk.bsky.social•22 hours ago

🎼 “I’m being followed by a Moooonrat! Moonrat, Moonrat!” 🎵 #2025MMM

actualrealsquirrel.bsky.social•22 hours ago

I'm going to be singing that all night now...

chloejosefson.bsky.social•23 hours ago

TONIGHT we find Cape Buffalo in the Okavango Delta in Botswana, a large delta system that relies on seasonal flood cycles (UNESCO, n.d.). Buffalo here respond to environmental changes by changing their herd size (Bennitt et al. 2017). A large, lone male grazes on the periphery of his herd #2025MMM

chloejosefson.bsky.social•23 hours ago

ELSEWHERE in the mangrove forests of Sumatra, Indonesia, Moonrat finds itself nestled in an abandoned burrow after a long night of munching earthworms. Moonrats prefer a solitary lifestyle and rarely will tolerate other moonrats. #ImALonerDotty #2025MMM

mrsroygbiv.bsky.social•23 hours ago

#2025MMM

dwaynefuhlhage.bsky.social•23 hours ago

I suddenly love the Moonrat. Introverts unite, little buddy.
#TeamMoonrat #TeamHopelessCreatures #2025MMM

prairiedogking.bsky.social•23 hours ago

long night of munching by myself, maybe I should work to become a moonrat #2025MMM

ratatosk.bsky.social•22 hours ago

PeeWee the Moonrat? What an honour for him! #2025MMM

chloejosefson.bsky.social•23 hours ago

#MMMagic Translocates Moonrat to the sunny, late afternoon grasslands of the Delta. Moonrat is not pleased; it is nocturnal and used to living in moist forests (Brozovic et al. 2018). Scared & unsure where to run for cover, Moonrat freezes into a hunched, open-mouthed position (GBIF, n.d.) #2025MMM

mrspope.bsky.social•23 hours ago

chloejosefson.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Moonrat stands frozen, mouth agape... WHEN SUDDENLY... footsteps approach... #2025MMM

cheerstoat.bsky.social•23 hours ago

A1 pee wee reference!

brushesandbiomes.bsky.social•22 hours ago

The one on the left is also me when people ask me how I'm doing #2025MMM

cryptkeeperwasp.bsky.social•23 hours ago

#TeamCapeBuffalo #2025MMM

vvsmider.bsky.social•19 hours ago

The buffalo have very special antibodies with ultralong CDR3, giving it a particularly robust immune system. Much better than any rodent. Easily the winner.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37084012/

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