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mammalssuck.bsky.social • 1 day ago

BUT LARGE WINGS PASS OVERHEAD!! #2025MMM

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davesdogmaggie.bsky.social•1 day ago

Double you tea eff?

#2025MMM

natickbobcat.bsky.social•1 day ago

#2025MMM

docrowschaef.bsky.social•1 day ago

muddycat.bsky.social•1 day ago

CHOOPA COBBLER

mammalssuck.bsky.social•1 day ago

Abberrantly off course on her spring migration, as sometimes happens (Strandberg et al. 2010)

and circling slowly, a marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus)

glides closer above the lone mustelid...

strength nearly spent, the raptor lands near Spotted-Necked Otter.

#2025MMM

mrsroygbiv.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oh no 🙈 not the 🦦!! #2025MMM

dwaynefuhlhage.bsky.social•1 day ago

SOMETHING BAD IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO @natickbobcat.bsky.social
#IncidentalBobcat #DeathFromAbove #2025MMM

mammalssuck.bsky.social•1 day ago

Spotted-necked otters are opportunistic feeders of mammals AND BIRDS

with an impressively flexible dietary niche,

and OTTER ATTACKS THE FEEBLE RAPTOR!!!

(Perrin and Carugati 2000) #2025MMM

petnoodle.bsky.social•1 day ago

Whoa!!! REVIVED BY BLOOD, THE POET-OTTER ARISES #2025MMM

mammalssuck.bsky.social•1 day ago

Addax browses on woody scrub brush common on the desert landscape, digesting very slowly to conserve water.

(Seri et al. 2018, Hummel et al. 2008) #2025MMM

drtljy.bsky.social•1 day ago

Again, the ungulate just looks on while eating. There’s a reason they are my research focus. #bcvammm #2025MMM

mammalssuck.bsky.social•1 day ago

The 8x heavier Otter tackles the exhausted raptor, pressing beak and talons into the sand!

Mighty Otter bites to the neck of the raptor do rapid damage!

#2025MMM

mammalssuck.bsky.social•1 day ago

The raptor's talons dig deep furrows in sand...

then stillness as mortality in the Sahara

ends the spring migration

of another Marsh Harrier

(Strandberg et al. 2010) #2025MMM

davesdogmaggie.bsky.social•1 day ago

Perchance to dream!

#2025MMM

natickbobcat.bsky.social•1 day ago

Unlikely #Carnage

#2025MMM

mammalssuck.bsky.social•1 day ago

Spotted-necked Otter begins to consume his raptor meal,

eating some of the feathers that won't be digested

(and show up in poo to reveal that spotted-necked otter consumes birds, though more typically waterfowl) (Perrin and Carugati 2000) #2205MMM

peromyscus.bsky.social•1 day ago

😭 #2025MMM

prairiedogking.bsky.social•1 day ago

take it's wings, little otter! fly away! FLY! #2025MMM

petnoodle.bsky.social•1 day ago

Rimbaud the Flying Otter, coming to Netflix next month!

#2025MMM

kellybrenner.bsky.social•1 day ago

at least it's not invertebrate carnage #2025MMM

peromyscus.bsky.social•1 day ago

NOOOO otter, don't kill the bird #2025MMM don't

mammalssuck.bsky.social•1 day ago

Check the citations in the mmmagazine later, it's a really cool article about mortality in the spring and fall migrations of raptors in the Sahara! #2025MMM