This division contained an intriguing assortment of animals to confound our investigation.
Were they using code names? Were they in disguise? And what was a red wolf doing here ,
instead of the red division? We wanted answers! Join us as we tackle The Case of the Tricksy Taxonomy.
The Egyptian fruit bat landed on a tree in Zambia. It looked down and caught the gaze
of a Kinda Baboon. The baboon approached the tree... but then sat down next to a female baboon to groom her.
The female kinda moved to a sunny patch and the male followed her - off the field of battle!
In an unexpected turn of events, the Egyptian fruit bat outlasts the baboon!
In this matchup the dugong weighs in at an astounding 1,909 stoats .
This is a completely unbalanced matchup, because the colo colo opossum is only 0.12 stoats in weight.
Not only does the dugong outweigh the colo colo opossum, it also enjoys - all together now -
Home Habitat Advantage. As a result, the opossum found itself floating on a precarious piece of wood ["whoa!"],
as the dugong grazed underneath. Fortunately, it was low tide! The opossum scrambled to dry land
leading the dugong to cruise to victory.
MC, March Mammal Magic can be really disorienting! One minute, the mara was
hanging out in Argentina with its mate; the next minute, he was here in the Philippines,
and his mate was missing! The tarsier watched from above as the mara called out and searched
for its other half. ["Hey Stella!!!"] it eventually left the field of battle in search of her!
The tarsier survives, and I'm off to file a missing mara report. Bye!
The Amami Rabbit crept through the grass of
Manu National Park in Peru. It had an eerie feeling that it was being watched...and it was!
A pit viper struck, but narrowly missed. The Amami Rabbit breathed a sigh of relief...
...and was promptly attached by the jaguarundi. There was carnage.
The jaguarundi advances.
High in the Andes of Ecuador, the mountain tapir grazed peacefully as the sun set.
The tree shrew, however, did not find it very peaceful at all. The tree shrew is used to a hot ,
tropical climate. It struggled for oxygen. It struggled for warmth. But finally,
it gave in and drifted off to the big sleep that is hypothermia.
The oblivious tapir moves on.
We tracked the giant golden mole to the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge in North Carolina,
where it tried to give us the slip by burrowing underground.
But, it attracted the red wolf's attention.
The wolf grabbed the mole from behind, dragged it out, and chomped. The mole is now taking a dirt nap.
The solenodon made itself right at home in Madagascar, catching and eating a shrew tenrec.
A striped civet came upon the scene and considered making a snack of the solenodon.
but instead the civet pounced - on a giant bug! -
and took it away off the field, leaving the solenodon unscathed and the unexpected winner.
The Siberian tundra is vast, but it was not big enough for the musk deer and the aoudad,
who faced off over a small patch of lichen. They snorted. They growled.
Then, they charged!
The musk deer's fangs sliced into the aoudad. The aoudad fought back, but then
decided to hastily retreat. The musk deer chases the aoudad out of the tournament!
Curiouser and curiouser! Two upset victories? These creatures are tricksy indeed.
The plot thickens. Join us next week for more Round One matchups.
I am MC Marmot, and this is the Mystery of March Mammal Madness