First Up: 1-seed Thorold's Deer (Cervus albirostris) vs. 16-seed Olympic Marmot (Marmota olympus) #2025MMM - ThreadSky

Camping with friends in the upper Olympics when the marmots began their evening calls. “What is that,” said one of us. “Oh,” I said, without even thinking, “That is the Marmot Tabernacle Choir.”

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postingposter.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Take my like and get out.

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osage2024.bsky.social•1 day ago

Go Marmot 🏌

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johnniec.bsky.social•1 day ago

How do I vote (for the Olympic marmot of course)?

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mammalssuck.bsky.social•1 day ago

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corb555.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Marmots are the best. Why were they seeded 16th?

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kingoshi.bsky.social•1 day ago

People rooting for the Marmot are we fr?

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cjmoose.bsky.social•1 day ago

Lets go #TeamMARMOT!!!
#2025MMM

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mammalssuck.bsky.social•1 day ago

The "large, robust, but short-legged" Thorold's Deer has gray-brown fur with large, pointed ears and a reddish buff rump and fur grows twice a thick during the cold months. (Leslie 2009) #2025MMM

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mammalssuck.bsky.social•1 day ago

Olympic marmots are a cat-sized rodent, adults with thick brown and white fur coats for warmth, with young have a greyer fur color. Olympic marmots molt their fur twice a year, once in June and again during hibernation (Edelman 2003) #2025MMM

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kirkmurphy.bsky.social•1 day ago

Go mighty marmot!

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shona1970.bsky.social•1 day ago

MC Marmot is cheering you on! #2025MMM

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mrspope.bsky.social•1 day ago

@natickbobcat.bsky.social would cat-sized suffice for tonight’s battle? 😅

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natickbobcat.bsky.social•1 day ago

No

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mrspope.bsky.social•1 day ago

Fair

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mammalssuck.bsky.social•1 day ago

Here in the Himalayas of Nepal, spring comes later, & Thorold's deer has scant food. With a summetime range stretching above 16,000 feet, Thorold's Deer is one of the rare deers adapted to elevations higher than the Sierras, Cascades, or Rocky Mountains. #2025MMM

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mammalssuck.bsky.social•1 day ago

Meanwhile in Olympic National Park on the Washington Peninsula, Olympic Marmot is curled up cozy HIBERNATING! Typically marmots stay in their burrows from September to May. (Murphy-Williams 2020; Edelman 2003) #2025MMM

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mammalssuck.bsky.social•1 day ago

March is well into the "withering" season, and Thorold's deer has migrated to lower elevations making the most of winter grasses, shrubs, & woody barks. (You et al. 2022) #2025MMM

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mammalssuck.bsky.social•1 day ago

RUDELY awakened from hibernation by MMMagical translocation, Olympic Marmot arrives near the Deer at the boundary of alpine meadow and alpine shrubland (You et al. 2022). #2025MMM

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