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Thanks for the reminder to post!
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& Tomorrow NIGHT is ROUND 2 of The Roots & Relicts & the Only Ones Divisions!! #2025MMM
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TASMANIAN DEVIL TERRIFIES DELACOUR'S LANGUR!!!!! #2025MMM
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Now TERRIFIED by the unearthly screams and demon shrieks (that gave the Tasmanian DEVIL its English name),
Delacour's Langur bolts to the Eucalyptus grove BEYOND the field of battle...
as the car turns off the highway down a side road to the ocean.
#2025MMM
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Our #2025MMM Tasmanian Devil explodes into "growls, grunts, hisses, moans, foot-stamping, whines, and shrieks"
(Rose et al. 2017) #2025MMM
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The cracking bones and eating snuffles scare the Langur,
but are as a siren song,
calling forth ANOTHER Tasmanian Devil sprinting in to fight for carcass meat...
(Rose et al. 2017) #2025MMM
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Headlights come closer, as the driver switches radio stations, searching for a sweet song, eyes darting away from the road.
#2025MMM
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Delacour's Langur shifts position assessing the situation...
sensing an intruder, Tasmanian Devil loud snorts then barks in ownership of his scavenged carcass!
(Rose et al. 2017) #2025MMM
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Through distant Eucalyptus trees, headlights twinkle. #2025MMM
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Fear rushes over Delacour's Langur. Alone on the ground, away from his social group & far from the limestone cliff where he watches as sentry for predators, these unfamiliar sounds are terrifying.
(Hardy 2011; Workman 2010) #2025MMM
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The bones of a juvenile wallaby crack open, & the Tasmanian Devil snuffles as he ravenously gorges on the scavenged roadkill.
(Jones et al. 2014; Rose et al. 2017) #2025MMM
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From the depths of darkness, Delacour's Langur hears a squishy CRAAAACK!!!! #2025MMM
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#MMMagic translocates a large male Delacour's Langur to Tasmania, he arrives on the ground amongst the shrubberies along the Arthur Highway. #2025MMM
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MEANWHILE, amongst the limestone cliffs & broadleaf evergreen forests of northern Viet Nam, a social group of Delacour's Langurs ascended the rocky cliffs at nightbreak to reach a sleeping site and are snoozing safely in the karst. (Nadler et al. 2020) #2024MMM
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Here, Tasmanian Devil lumbers briskly in the nighttime.
He has become the apex terrestrial predator.
On mainland Australia, dingoes outcompeted Thylacines thousands of years ago. More recently European settlers hunted Thylacines to extinction by the early 1900s. #2025MMM
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TONIGHT'S Battle takes place late at night along the Arthur Highway of Turrakana / Tasman Peninsula approximately 75 miles, as the car drives, outside Hobart, Tasmania (Hobday 2010) #2025MMM
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Delacour's Langur is a black and white leaf monkey. Most all of it is black fur, but the monkey's white fur makes it look like it's rocking some white bicyle shorts. The biggest males can tip the scales at 23lbs. (Harding 2011) #2025MMM
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Once living in much of Australia but now only found in Tasmania, the Tasmanian Devil is a stocky marsupial carnivore- their black coat has a slash of white across the chest & some white spots on the torso. The biggest males can be >26lbs. ( #2025MMM
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Ribbon Seal defeats Southern Tamandua!!!!! #2025MMM
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Under continued duress the Taumandu backs up. In the forest it will back into a tree or rock to protect itself while facing an attacker. Unfortunately here there is only the edge of the ice, & with a small splash the Tamandua tumbles into the freezing ocean. #2025MMM
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Threatened by the approaching seal, the Tamandua rears up on its hind legs to better defend itself with long curved claws that can easily tear away at termite nests when foraging (Hayssen 2011). #2025MMM
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Males seals typically are absent for birth & weaning, not showing up until May for mating season. Females often leave pups unattended on the ice (Burns 1981). Maybe there's an early mating chance if the seal waits by the fuzzy thing? The seal gets closer to investigate! #BadDads #2025MMM
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Ribbon Seals are typically less wary on ice than most seals, possibly due to poor vision in air (Boveng 2013). Craning his neck the seal tries to see if Tamandua is a seal pup. Pups are born white with a woolly coat of fur & only show markings when they molt at 3-5 weeks old. #2025MMM
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The cold air rapidly pulls the warmth from the Tamandua. The underside of its long prehensile tail lacks fur, to aid in holding tree branches. Now Tamandua curls that tail around her body to retain some warmth. #2025MMM
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Tamandua spend very little time on the ground & this one clumsily walks around searching for trees, a stranger in a strange land....or lack of land. #2025MMM
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Far away in a dense, Bolivian rain forest, a female Tamandua is using her long sticky tounge to slurp up ants from a nest in a tree. (www.youtube.com/watch?v=11pU...) Suddenly, #MMMagic translocates the Taumandu to the sea ice! #2025MMM
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Our battle takes place in the home habitat of the Ribbon Seal, on a thick ice floe in the Bearing Sea. Here a large male has hauled out of the water to allow for its annual molting of fur & skin. #2024MMM
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Southern Tamandua are small arboreal anteaters with a long, thin nose. They are covered in pale cream fur with variable amounts of black patches around the shoulders, typically looking like they are wearing a vest or collar. #2025MMM
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Ribbon seals have dark fur with four very distinct wide bands of white encircling their neck, hips, and each front flipper. Differences in "ribbons" can be used to identify individuals & are thought to help hide the shape of the seal from a distance. #2025MMM
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Mountain Zebra DUSTS White-faced Capuchin!! #2025MMM