Next Up: #4-seed Coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) vs #5-seed Ringed Seal (Pusa hispida saimensis) #2025MMM - ThreadSky

mammalssuck.bsky.social • 3 days ago

Next Up: #4-seed Coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) vs #5-seed Ringed Seal (Pusa hispida saimensis) #2025MMM

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natickbobcat.bsky.social•3 days ago

Speaking of armored critters…

#2025MMM

belong813.bsky.social•3 days ago

Let's see if he can COELA-CAN a second time!

mammalssuck.bsky.social•3 days ago

Latimeria chalumnae is Critcally Endangered https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/11375/3274618 & is 1 of 2 Coelacanth species. Coelacanths are an extremely old fish group, more closely related to lungfish & tetrapods (4-limbed animals) than other fish https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/fish/coelacanth #2025MMM

mammalssuck.bsky.social•3 days ago

Ringed Seals have spent 9500+ years isolated in Lake Saimaa, Finland's largest lake. They are listed as Endangered due to a small population (~400 individuals) & threats of hunting & fishing bycatch combined with impending climate change (Kunnasranta et al. 2021) https://www.sll.fi/en/saimaa-ringed-seal/ #2025MMM

natickbobcat.bsky.social•3 days ago

#2025MMM

drtljy.bsky.social•3 days ago

Humans are the worst.

mammalssuck.bsky.social•3 days ago

Coelacanth is drift-hunting off the west coast of Grande Comoro Island between Africa & Madagascar.

She hunts the extremely steep lava-formed underwater slopes using her limblike fins to steer

(Fricke & Plante 1988, Hissman et al. 2000) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jl_txxYQEA&t=73s #2025MMM

mammalssuck.bsky.social•3 days ago

Ringed Seal is in the water of Lake Saimaa near his snow lair (Liukkonen et al. 2018; Niemi et al. 2019).

He pops his head out of his breathing hole, inhales, & dives below the ice encrusted surface to hunt for his favorite fish: perch, smelt & ruff

(Auttila et al. 2015) #2025MMM

davesdogmaggie.bsky.social•3 days ago

A fricken “snow” lair.

#2026MMM

davesdogmaggie.bsky.social•3 days ago

👆 #2025MMM

mammalssuck.bsky.social•3 days ago

Ringed Seal is transported via #MMMagic 150m deep in the Indian Ocean!

Our 1.5m long, 100kg Ringed Seal is swimming deeper than he ever has in his freshwater lake, pushing his forelimb flippers hard against the water

(Kunnasranta et al. 2002) #2025MMM

stoatamatic.bsky.social•3 days ago

4.41 stoatlengths, and a weight of 455 stoats #StoatsAsMeasurement #2025MMM

mammalssuck.bsky.social•3 days ago

BUT Ringed Seal is within the dive depth of his ocean-going fellow ringed seals! (Harwood et al. 2015)

what I'm saying is, HE CAN HANDLE THE PRESSURE.

#2025MMM

peromyscus.bsky.social•3 days ago

It's under pressure #2025MMM

modcur.bsky.social•3 days ago

That portal has some mammal bias, letting the seal get a deep breath first #2025MMM

heidilynphd.bsky.social•3 days ago

Cool, guys, cool. Flash high powered lights into the eyes of a creature that has adapted to the dark depths. Must be like turning on a fluorescent while wearing night-vision goggles. #2025mmm

prairiedogking.bsky.social•3 days ago

geez, I've been in St. Louis for 5 years and THAT seems like a long time #2025MMM

sparrowmeds.bsky.social•3 days ago

modcur.bsky.social•3 days ago

Counting on the seal to nope out of the coelacanths depths quickly #2025MMM

peromyscus.bsky.social•3 days ago

One coel/seal versus another? #2025MMM

veppart.bsky.social•3 days ago

NICE

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