MsKundtz
@mskundtz.bsky.social
Life Science Educator. Lover of all things S.T.E.M. Here for animal fights. #MMM
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Male-Male Battles for Mates & Carcasses can cause significant canine breakage, especially as male polar bears reach older ages! PAPER DROPPED LAST WEEK!!!
(Tremblay et al. 2025) #2025MMM
(Tremblay et al. 2025) #2025MMM
![Fig 2. Canine breakage categories.
(A) Canine classifications (starting top left clockwise): 1, 3, 2, 1. Side panels depict illustrative approximate vertical cut-offs for each breakage classification and real-life examples associated with each category, denoted by number. Images taken by David McGeachy and Andrew E. Derocher. Image in Panel A reprinted from [52] under a CC BY license, with permission from Andrew E. Derocher, original copyright [2023]. Illustrations by Simonne S. Tremblay.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0319753.g002](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jevf67unckfxugfk4iqjrsb4/bafkreiajy4ewhqyn2kao3v527ffbgdd5wy3jbegek3a2ovgotwwh2upcnm@jpeg)
April 3, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Male-Male Battles for Mates & Carcasses can cause significant canine breakage, especially as male polar bears reach older ages! PAPER DROPPED LAST WEEK!!!
(Tremblay et al. 2025) #2025MMM
(Tremblay et al. 2025) #2025MMM
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Can I sponsor this polar bear? I want to send it a first aid care package!
a woman is covering her mouth with her hand while holding a bow and arrow in her hand .
Alt: a woman is covering her mouth with her hand while holding a bow and arrow in her hand .
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April 1, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Can I sponsor this polar bear? I want to send it a first aid care package!
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“How do I love thee, let me count the [the types of sea caves]”
a dark cave with waves coming out of it and the sun shining through
ALT: a dark cave with waves coming out of it and the sun shining through
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April 1, 2025 at 1:02 AM
“How do I love thee, let me count the [the types of sea caves]”
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Male-male combat among the cercopithecines has favored weapon-like upper canines that are basically MOUTH DAGGERS that sharpen against the honing lower premolar as Gelada males open & close their mouths! (Washburn 1996) #2025MMM
April 1, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Male-male combat among the cercopithecines has favored weapon-like upper canines that are basically MOUTH DAGGERS that sharpen against the honing lower premolar as Gelada males open & close their mouths! (Washburn 1996) #2025MMM
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Once Ginkgo are 30-40 years old, their autumn fruit "emits a rancid odor reminiscent of human vomit... In the horticultural literature, the smell is variously described as “disagreeable,” “evil,” “offensive,” “disgusting,” “repulsive,” “putrid,” & “abominable” (Del Tredici 2024) #2025MMM
April 1, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Once Ginkgo are 30-40 years old, their autumn fruit "emits a rancid odor reminiscent of human vomit... In the horticultural literature, the smell is variously described as “disagreeable,” “evil,” “offensive,” “disgusting,” “repulsive,” “putrid,” & “abominable” (Del Tredici 2024) #2025MMM
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A death gulch claims another ursid victim in Yellowstone! #2025MMM cowboystatedaily.com/2024/05/11/d...
Death Gulch: How One Spot In Yellowstone's Northeast Corner Got Its Morbid Name
Although Yellowstone is beautiful, it's had its fair share of maulings, scaldings, murders, and even cannibalism. But one spot in northeast Yellowstone…
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March 28, 2025 at 1:02 AM
A death gulch claims another ursid victim in Yellowstone! #2025MMM cowboystatedaily.com/2024/05/11/d...
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Seeing the Narwhal stranded in the shallow pool, polar bear re-calculates the odds of a successful hunt & moves in fast for a FEAST! After all, spring is the MAIN GORGING season of Polar Bears that will continue to consume meat available many days in a row! #2025MMM
March 28, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Seeing the Narwhal stranded in the shallow pool, polar bear re-calculates the odds of a successful hunt & moves in fast for a FEAST! After all, spring is the MAIN GORGING season of Polar Bears that will continue to consume meat available many days in a row! #2025MMM
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PUMA GORGED JUST YESTERDAY ON SAIGA, and puma hunts every 6-10 days, he poses NO RISK TO THE ADDAX as he is still DIGESTING YESTERDAY'S DINNER IN HIS FULL GUT. PUMA slides into a pleasant CAT NAP!!!! #2025MMM
March 28, 2025 at 12:38 AM
PUMA GORGED JUST YESTERDAY ON SAIGA, and puma hunts every 6-10 days, he poses NO RISK TO THE ADDAX as he is still DIGESTING YESTERDAY'S DINNER IN HIS FULL GUT. PUMA slides into a pleasant CAT NAP!!!! #2025MMM
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Finally, the #ArcticShowdown everyone has been waiting for! Narwhal vs Polar Bear, the Alien vs Predator of #2025MMM.
a swimming pool with waves crashing against the shore
Alt: A polar bear emerges from a swimming pool with waves crashing
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March 27, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Finally, the #ArcticShowdown everyone has been waiting for! Narwhal vs Polar Bear, the Alien vs Predator of #2025MMM.
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The Cape Buffalo "is the largest and most massive bovid of the African continent"- Across its African distribution, 80% of the Cape Buffalo population died during the rinderpest epidemic of 1896, now eradicated thanks to vaccines! (Morens et al. 2011) #2025MMM
March 27, 2025 at 2:02 AM
The Cape Buffalo "is the largest and most massive bovid of the African continent"- Across its African distribution, 80% of the Cape Buffalo population died during the rinderpest epidemic of 1896, now eradicated thanks to vaccines! (Morens et al. 2011) #2025MMM
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Near urban areas, humans have direct & indirect impacts on puma populations. In addition to highway collisions like the one that led to puma P-22's death in 2022, habitat fragmentation reduces genetic diversity (Ernest et al 2014). #2025MMM www.nps.gov/articles/000...
Puma Profiles: P-22 (U.S. National Park Service)
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March 27, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Near urban areas, humans have direct & indirect impacts on puma populations. In addition to highway collisions like the one that led to puma P-22's death in 2022, habitat fragmentation reduces genetic diversity (Ernest et al 2014). #2025MMM www.nps.gov/articles/000...
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In the 1980s, researchers determined that "approximately 70% of [Saimaa ringed seal] pups drowned each year after becoming entangled in gill nets," in Lake Saimaa, Finland (Bell et al., 2008). #2025MMM
March 27, 2025 at 12:44 AM
In the 1980s, researchers determined that "approximately 70% of [Saimaa ringed seal] pups drowned each year after becoming entangled in gill nets," in Lake Saimaa, Finland (Bell et al., 2008). #2025MMM
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Hold on, let's give ADDAX a few seconds... 21 seconds (plus or minus 13 seconds) as the LAW OF URINATION states, all mammals empty their bladders over the same amount of time!! Go on, see for yourself! #YoureWelcomeTeachers (Yang etal 2013) #2025MMM
March 27, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Hold on, let's give ADDAX a few seconds... 21 seconds (plus or minus 13 seconds) as the LAW OF URINATION states, all mammals empty their bladders over the same amount of time!! Go on, see for yourself! #YoureWelcomeTeachers (Yang etal 2013) #2025MMM
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This includes lions (Panthera leo), Buffalo's primary predator (Owen-Smith and Mills 2008), accounting for almost 90% of adult and sub-adult deaths (excluding disease and drought) in the park (Prins and Iason 1989). #2025MMM
March 25, 2025 at 1:04 AM
This includes lions (Panthera leo), Buffalo's primary predator (Owen-Smith and Mills 2008), accounting for almost 90% of adult and sub-adult deaths (excluding disease and drought) in the park (Prins and Iason 1989). #2025MMM
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This increased fragmentation, or breaking up of habitat, means that it will be harder for Ginkgo trees to exchange genes in reproduction and may lead to the species becoming less diverse over time. #2025MMM
March 27, 2025 at 12:43 AM
This increased fragmentation, or breaking up of habitat, means that it will be harder for Ginkgo trees to exchange genes in reproduction and may lead to the species becoming less diverse over time. #2025MMM
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Zebra’s legs “stride powerfully underwater” (Stone 2008) as he attempts to swim to land he assumes would be surely upstream… but where? #2025MMM
March 27, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Zebra’s legs “stride powerfully underwater” (Stone 2008) as he attempts to swim to land he assumes would be surely upstream… but where? #2025MMM
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CHACOAN PECCARY is vulnerable to the trifecta of rapid deforestation, competition with cattle, and pneumonia, which infants are particularly vulnerable to. The impenetrable nature of the Chaco thorn-scrub forests makes assessing population status difficult (Saldivar-Bellassai etal 2021) #2025MMM
March 27, 2025 at 12:14 AM
CHACOAN PECCARY is vulnerable to the trifecta of rapid deforestation, competition with cattle, and pneumonia, which infants are particularly vulnerable to. The impenetrable nature of the Chaco thorn-scrub forests makes assessing population status difficult (Saldivar-Bellassai etal 2021) #2025MMM
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How did Coati get their stripes? Not yet known ... but we know how another Carnivore loses them! 3 mutations in gene TAQPEP changes a cat from tabby striped to blotchy #RIP #2025MMM www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
March 27, 2025 at 12:12 AM
How did Coati get their stripes? Not yet known ... but we know how another Carnivore loses them! 3 mutations in gene TAQPEP changes a cat from tabby striped to blotchy #RIP #2025MMM www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Dragging the dead coati between its front legs, the ocelot waddles off with its prize (youtube.com/clip/Ugkx50L...). Gelada continues to pick through the grass, unimpressed #2025MMM
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March 27, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Dragging the dead coati between its front legs, the ocelot waddles off with its prize (youtube.com/clip/Ugkx50L...). Gelada continues to pick through the grass, unimpressed #2025MMM
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The ocelot launches forward. Limbs flail as the coati and ocelot roll and scramble across the dirt floor. youtube.com/clip/UgkxzC8... #2025MMM
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March 27, 2025 at 12:10 AM
The ocelot launches forward. Limbs flail as the coati and ocelot roll and scramble across the dirt floor. youtube.com/clip/UgkxzC8... #2025MMM
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Aardvarks are fossorial, meaning they are well-adapted for digging, which is one reason they are the only extant member of their Order. Other members of this group were less fit for the digging life, and this maybe part of the reason these populations went extinct (Taylor and Skinner 2004) #2025MMM
March 25, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Aardvarks are fossorial, meaning they are well-adapted for digging, which is one reason they are the only extant member of their Order. Other members of this group were less fit for the digging life, and this maybe part of the reason these populations went extinct (Taylor and Skinner 2004) #2025MMM
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The Polar Bear tolerates the fellow scavenger at the whale carcass too big to cache or defend.
Indeed multiple polar bears converge to co-feed on large whale carcasses (Laidre et al. 2018)
#2025MMM
Indeed multiple polar bears converge to co-feed on large whale carcasses (Laidre et al. 2018)
#2025MMM
March 25, 2025 at 12:51 AM
The Polar Bear tolerates the fellow scavenger at the whale carcass too big to cache or defend.
Indeed multiple polar bears converge to co-feed on large whale carcasses (Laidre et al. 2018)
#2025MMM
Indeed multiple polar bears converge to co-feed on large whale carcasses (Laidre et al. 2018)
#2025MMM