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I guess there’s a reason there’s a saying in the bear world: “if it’s white, goodnight.”

Goodnight #2025MMM, I’ll see ya next year in hopes I get the school staff trophy back 😭

And the puma didn’t actually leave the field of battle, but was hanging out near the edge waiting for the remains to be left?! Please?!

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Nooooo my kitty #2025MMM

DO NOT LEAVE PUMA! I NEED YOU TO STAY ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE LONG ENOUGH FOR THE BEAR TO LEAVE OR DIE OR SOMETHING

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Ew… jaw popping sounds… #2025MMM

Who slips on the rocks due to his injured paw and rolls down into a hot spring!

Love the Eurovision movie 😂 the song “Husavik” is on frequently in my car

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#2025MMM

That’s actually a neat theme to stick with!

Oooooo I’ve always wanted to go to Iceland! #2025MMM

Pls, Katie, let me keep my building’s staff trophy! It’s between me and one other teacher rn, and he chose the bear #TeamPuma #2025MMM

If any science teachers in k-12 need something to do with their classes after #2025MMM, check out the Algalita Lab’s Wayfinder Society! My classes are taking part in the Earth Month Classroom Challenge

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#2025MMM

March Mammal Madness would not be possible without MUSEUMS, LIBRARIES, & the Department of Education!!! Protect theses essential foundations of our society. These are the fulcrum moments of history on which our future TILTS. #2025MMM

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You didn’t mess it up for me so you’re doing very well #2025mmm

THANK YOU KATIE

Pls only do enough damage for the puma to win the championship, but not enough that the frickin tree wins

NO KATIE PLS DONT DO THIS TO ME

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Ooooo baby! Momma needs a new pair of boots! #TeamPolarBear #2025mmm

Oh? So does the fungus win round 1 after all???? In the bracket scoring part, that is?

#2025MMM

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Imagine being on the sidewalk near the museums and hearing this battle off in the distance… #2025mmm

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RUN GELADA

I swear to god, DURGAVICH, do not mess this up for me #TeamPuma

I’m really holding out hope that karma comes back to the Gelada for all the work incidental felids have done for it thus far

AYE AYE, CAPTAIN!

Now we have to figure out how a Polar Bear is going to fight a tree… #2025mmm

Honestly yeah. I just figured you forgot to saw it was a sea cave in the arctic 😂

Is there a sea cave near the arctic they can both have technical advantage in?

Photo of a mother polar bear with two cubs standing among melting ice. The mother is standing in front of her cubs on all fours paused in motion, while the cubs are more stationary – half crouched and sitting. All three are staring at the camera. Watermark reads: “Carnivora – Ursidae, Ursus maritimus Polar bear. Image by LL Master, American Society of Mammalogists, Mammal Images Library

Underwater photo of the head of a female narwhal descending into the deep across the camera’s axis. Without a tusk, the whale has a blunt, flat face which rounds into the body which turns a speckled blue on white.

Last Up: 1-Seed POLAR BEAR (Ursus maritimus) vs. 2-Seed NARWHAL (Monodon monoceros). This battle was co-written with @chloejosefson.bsky.social & @mammalssuck.bsky.social‬ & me #TeamWork #2025MMM