March Mammal Madness
Round 4 (Elite 8): Sexy Beasts
Match Up
Elephant Seal
Winner
Brown Bear
Rationale/Details
Elephant Seal: males stay
mainly on beach in late
Nov/early Dec. to
establish dominance for
breeding season….lasts
thru March, even at end
of breeding season they
are about 2000lbs, can
dive down 1 mile and
have 3x hemoglobin as to
allow them to make such
dives
Brown Bear: weigh about
1500lbs,
Battle: intertidal zone,
brown bear sees elephant
seal as a buffet, elephant
seal roars, brown bears
roars and charges, as
elephant seal rears head
back to attack with its
teeth, the brown bear
slices the neck of the E.
seal, as E. seal retreats to
water, a transient orca
comes on shore and bites
E. seal, E. seal retreats
back on sand away from
orca and B. bear.
March Mammal Madness
Round 4 (Elite 8): Critically
Endangered
Match Up
Tamaraw
Winner
Sumatran Rhino
Rationale/Details
Battle: semi-arid desert
causing both organisms to
be confused, circle each
other, tamarw at 660lbs
vs. rhino at 1800lbs, head
butting, but tamaraw
much lighter and rhino
bowls over the tamaraw
March Mammal Madness
Round 4 (Elite 8): Mythical
Mammals
Match Up
Minotaur
Winner
Yeti
Rationale/Details
Yeti: A 10' tall man like creature
with shaggy white hair, home
turf advantage of Himalayan
Mtns,
Minotaur: Half-man half-bull
mythical creature that lived on
the Greek island of Crete.
Home turf – labyrinth. Gores
vanara hanuman with horns.
Battle: takes place in a mythical
, misty forest, yeti smells the
scent of a bull, minotaur ready
with horns down ready to gore,
yeti sees minotaur and still
advances forward, minotaur
runs towards yeti, yeti grabs
minotaur by the horns, yeti
twists its arms and breaks
minotaur’s neck
March Mammal Madness
Round 4 (Elite 8): Mighty Mini
Mammals
Match Up
LL Streaked Tenrec
Winner
Mongoose
Rationale/Details
Mongoose: Dwarf
mongooses are territorial
and mark their territories by
doing handstands against
vertical objects and wiping
their anal glands downward
to paste a secretion on the
objects. They also mark each
other with secretions – a
process known as
allomarking. In this way
members of the group
recognize one another,
reproductive suppression by
nondominant females.
Tenrec : can regrow spines
in less than 4 days
Battle: takes place in a semiarid desert which is home
turf to mongoose, tenrec
moves up termite mound to
attack mongoose, tenrec
slips and underside is
exposed, mongoose attacks
underbelly and wins