NEXT UP: #2 Cougar (Puma concolor) vs. Star-nosed mole (Condylura cristata) #2025MMM - ThreadSky

mammalssuck.bsky.social • 10 days ago

NEXT UP: #2 Cougar (Puma concolor) vs. Star-nosed mole (Condylura cristata) #2025MMM

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cjmoose.bsky.social•10 days ago

Will this be another year for #CatScandal? 👀

#2025MM

mammalssuck.bsky.social•10 days ago

The COUGAR (puma/mountain lion/catamount) weighs in at 265 lbs (545 stoats), 7'10" long (~7 stoats), and almost 3 ft tall (~3.5 stoats)! Spanning the Americas, these cats reflect Bergmann's rule & tend to be smaller near the equator. (Gay & Best 1996) #TheMoreYouGrow #StoatsAreStandard #2025MMM

joshrosenau.org•9 days ago

265 pounds is a big damn cougar!

mammalssuck.bsky.social•9 days ago

We tend to feature the most battle-ready specimen of the species in MMM...

joshrosenau.org•9 days ago

Anything less would be unfair to the competition.

belong813.bsky.social•10 days ago

ROLL COUGS
I wonder how many high schools who use mmm have cougars as mascots...

mammalssuck.bsky.social•10 days ago

The STAR-NOSED MOLE is 2.65 oz (1/3rd stoat) and 8" long (3/5th stoat) with a strikingly unique face! Their name comes from the sensory organ surrounding their nose that uses TWENTY-TWO finger-like tendrils to feel their environment & find prey. #2025MMM

davesdogmaggie.bsky.social•10 days ago

“TWENTY-TWO finger-like tendrils to feel their environment & find prey.”

Nightmare fuel. You could have just said nightmare fuel.

#2025MMM

drmurderbritches.bsky.social•10 days ago

Why so judgmental?

Oh... okay. Yeah. That was a stupid question. Carry on.

mammalssuck.bsky.social•10 days ago

I should mention, this battle is a collaboration with @midwesternmouse.bsky.social & myself! #2025MMM

mammalssuck.bsky.social•10 days ago

Star-nosed Mole is searching for grubs near the Pinawa Channel & Winnipeg River in southern Manitoba, CA. As her star-nose tendrils touch a delicious worm, she moves at THE SPEED OF NERVES (120 milliseconds) to grab it...
(Catania & Remple 2005) #2025MM

littlemisswoolly.bsky.social•10 days ago

A good spot for grubs, I hear from all my star nose mole friends.

margooutside.bsky.social•10 days ago

Hate it #2025MMM

mammalssuck.bsky.social•10 days ago

BUT #MMMagic translocation IS FASTER, and Star-nosed Mole arrives amongst the moonshadows cast on the forest floor of a woodland-grassland of the Santa Susana Mountains of Southern California!
(Riley et al., 2021) #2025MMM

mammalssuck.bsky.social•10 days ago

The quiet night is broken by a pause pause

#2025MMM