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CHAMPION⛵ #2026MMM EMOJI BATTLE: 🐋🆚🐊: 🪄🪸/🌕🌊🆗/🐋🩹🗡️/ 🐊🤨🏊🏾‍♂️/🦈🔁🤱🏼🙂‍↔️/🦈🐊💀🙂‍↕️/ 🐋🤨👉🏼💀/🐊🙅🏾‍♂️🍽️🥶/👶🏼🔁🐊/ 👶🏼👉🏼👃🏼🐊/🐊💥👶🏼🐳/🐋👶🏼😡/ 🐋🔜🐊⤵️/🐋🫧🐊😵‍💫/🐋💥🐊/ 🐊🏊🏾‍♂️👋🏼/🏆🐋

🙋🏼‍♀️🫶🏼 I'm just happy to be here! #2026MMM

SHOUT OUTS TO @cnanderson.bsky.social for pulling together the archived Play-by-Play night after night; @prairiedogking.bsky.social stage managing this rowdy crew; & Jessica helming @mmmletsgo.bsky.social for amplifying all the official record (& those sweet emoji summaries) #2026MMM

#2026MMM FINAL R😮AR EMOJI BATTLE 🐊🆚🦡: 🪄🌳/🦡👃🏼🦎/🦡🧗🏾‍♂️🌳/ 🐊🐊🍽️💀/🐊😑🔊🐊/🦡🦷🦎/ 🦡🦎⤵️💀/🐊👄🐊/🐊 💀💥🦡/ 🇦🇺🐊🤷🏻👋🏻/🦡🍽️🐛/🐊🍽️💀/🏆🐊 🐋🆚🐂: 🪄🇺🇸/🐋🤏🌊/👶🏼🚫🍼/ 🐋🤰🏼🔴😩/🐂🏊🏾‍♂️📐🐋/🐋🔄🐂/ 🐂🗡️🐋🩻/🐋⬇️🐂/🛘🕳️🔜🌅/ 🐋👶🏼🐂🏊🏼‍♀️/🐂🏊🏾‍♂️🏖️/🐋🍼👶🏼/🏆🐋

John Hayden ❌👑🌊@jhayden.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Crap... Is this foreshadowing? Should I change socks? #2026MMM

Very impressive #BestMod battle narrations this fine (if sticky) evening! Hats off to all tonight's mods! #2026MMM

Jess Popescu@jesspopescu.bsky.social · 4mo ago

#2026MMM

"In the mammal justice system, the real lions are represented by two separate yet equally important lions: Torn Ear and Dark Mane. These are their stories."

#2026MMM ELITE TR8️⃣ EMOJI BATTLE 🦡🆚📿: 🪄🌳/🦡🙄🌳/🦡💥📿/ 📿🙂‍↔️🔊/📿🫦🦡/🦡🤷🏻‍♂️🍽️📿/🏆🦡 🐮🆚🐂: 🚣🏼🏹🐮/🪄🏜️/🐮🐂🥵/ 🏹🫀🩸/🐂➡️👥🐮/🐮☁️👀/🏆🐂 🐋🆚🦛: 🪄🪸/🦛🏊🏾🪨/🐟✂️🦛/ 🐋🔊👶🏻/🦈🔜🦛🩸/🦈🍽️🦛/🏆🐋 🐊🆚🦁: 🪄🇺🇬/🦁🦁🏊‍♂️/🐊👂🦁/ 🦁😱↩️/🐊🍽️🦵🏻🧫/🦁🦁👋🏻/🏆🐊

BUT MOLD IS WIELDING A SWORD! #2026MMM

Nile Crocodile swims toward Torn Ear.... #2026MMM

Lara Durgavich@ldurgavich.bsky.social · 4mo ago

HA! You thought I picked the actual champion with my bracket?? Haven't done it thus far and consistency is key! #2026MMM

HUMPBACK WHALE OUTLASTS HIPPO!!! #2026MMM

Mama whale angles down into deeper water with her calf swimming just above her back.

"Why did you burn down that Arby's, ma'am?" "Dylan told me to." #2026MMM

#InspirationalIntermission #2026MMM

Two Oryx walk a sand dune in silhouette as the sun sets behind them with the quote "Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
-Dylan Thomas

V Pellicer- looking for work!@veppart.bsky.social · 4mo ago

THE ART HAS SOUND NOW #2026MMM

#2026MMM #EliteTrait #ExtinctionDivision #TeamAurochs Art by Valeria Pellicer @veppart.bsky.social

Sweet 1️⃣6️⃣ EMOJI BATTLES: #2026MMM 💀 Is Forever: 🐮🆚🐬: 🐬🦦🤸🏼‍♀️/🐬🧂😕/🏆🐮 🐪🆚🐂: 🐪🐂🌳/🐂🗡️🐪/🏆🐂 📚 Legends: 🐊🆚🦊: 🦊🌅🥤/🐊🍽️🦊/🏆🐊 🦁🆚🐈: 🦁🍽️🐆/🧫🙀👋🏼/🏆🦁 💲Mammals: 🐋🆚🦏: 🦏💥🐋/🦏🏊🏾‍♂️🏖️/🏆🐋 🐘🆚🦛: 🦛🦷🐘/🔙🐘👋🏽/🏆🦛 That's So 🤘🏻: 🦡🆚👄: 🐟👄😰/🦡🍽️👄/🏆🦡 🥸🆚📿: 🚁📿🪺/🥸😫🛫/🏆📿

V Pellicer- looking for work!@veppart.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"H-... Hav-... Hhhaving fun isn't h-hard... Wh-when you've g-g-got a library c-c-card." #2026MMM

#2026MMM #SweetSixteen #LibraryDivision #TeamLions Art by Olivia Pellicer @opellisms.bsky.social

2 male lions with full manes and teeth bared stalk between library shelves as seen from between the books of a close up shelf with blurry books in the foreground

IT'S BASED ON REAL RESEARCH, Y'ALL. #2026MMM

a cartoon dog is sitting at a table in front of a fire with the words it 's fine everything is fine

ALT: a cartoon dog is sitting at a table in front of a fire with the words it 's fine everything is fine

media.tenor.com

AFTER ALL: cheetah cub mortality is extremely high, peaks in the first two weeks after emerging from the lair, & lions responsible for ~80% of cheetah cub predation deaths (Laurenson 1994) #2026MMM

Foreshadowing alert 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 #2026MMM

<cough cough> #2026MMM

V Pellicer- looking for work!@veppart.bsky.social · 4mo ago

He just wants to be literate. 🥹 #2026MMM

#2026MMM #SweetSixteen #LibraryDivision #TeamNileCrocodile Art by Charon Henning @oddangel.bsky.social

A large crocodile head is visible, rising up behind a long low bookshelf against the background of a darkened library

V Pellicer- looking for work!@veppart.bsky.social · 4mo ago

THE PAGES ARE WAVES, YOU GUYS. #2026MMM

#2026MMM #SweetSixteen #LibraryDivision #TeamNileCrocodile Art by Charon Henning @oddangel.bsky.social

A crocodile’s head just above the waterline sits among stylized waves that contain text from relevant research papers that relate to the combatant

Dr. Patrice K. Connors@pkconnors.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Want to know more about Steller's Sea Cow? Or rather... Want your students to learn more?! Check out our #2026MMM Lesson Plan in the LibGuide! It features 3 different species from Extinction is Forever!

Steller's Sea Cow scrapes at algae growing on rocks... but Sea Cow HAS NO TEETH!! Instead, Sea Cow swipes with his forelimbs & bristly lips as if "cut off with a dull knife" (Anderson & Domning 2009) #2026MMM www.biolib.cz/en/image/id3...

ROUND 2 EMOJI BATTLES #2026MMM 💀 IS FOREVER 🐮🆚🐐: 💂🏼‍♂️🎯🐐/🐮🌊🐐/🏆🐮 🐬🆚🦘: 🐬🐳⤵️/😾🍽️🦘/🏆🐬 🐂🆚🐯: 🐯👃🏼🧑🏽‍🌾/🐯😰👋🏿/🏆🐂 🐪🆚🧥: 🐪💩🧥/🧥🏊🏼‍♀️👋🏼/🏆🐪 THAT'S SO 🤘🏾 🦡🆚🪏: 🦡😤🪏/🦡🍽️🪏/🏆🦡 👄🆚🦎: 🦎🐟👄/🦎🎈🆙/🏆👄 📿🆚🐁: 📿🍽️🐇/🐁🤫👋🏼/🏆📿 🥸🆚🐦‍⬛: 🐣🆘🥸/🐦‍⬛🤷🏼🛫/🏆🥸

Round 2 EMOJI BATTLES #2026MMM 💲MAMMALS 🐋🆚🦍: 🐋👶🏻🆙/🐋🌊🦍/🏆🐋 🐘🆚⚔️: 🐘🪓🌳/⚔️😨🏃🏻‍➡️/🏆🐘 🦏🆚🦒: 🦏😤🔊/🦒😳🏃🏼‍➡️/🏆🦏 🦛🆚🦧: 🦛😡😮/🦧😬🧗🏽/🏆🦛 📚 LEGENDS 🐊🆚🐁: 🐊😮🪤/🐊🍽️🐁/🏆🐊 🦉🆚🦊: 🦉🍽️😵/🦉🐰🛫/🏆🦊 🦁🆚🪹: 🦁🦷🪹/🦁🖐🏽🧫/🏆🦁 🐕🆚🐈: 🪄🐈🙀/🐈🤜🏻🐕/🏆🐈

Katie Hinde@mammalssuck.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Feuerstein & Terkel... Cat attorneys at law. #2026MMM

Sadie the Therapy Dog, having grown up since before 1 year of age with an older household cat, knows what these cat communications are!!!! (Feuerstein & Terkel 2008) #2026MMM

Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 5mo ago

It cracks me up that the #2026MMM #2026mmm MMMagazine functions as a Rosetta stone, providing both the detailed stories in English along with the "hieroglyphics" version. And big huzzah to @jesspopescu.bsky.social for her brilliant emoji summaries libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalM...

Jess Popescu@jesspopescu.bsky.social · 5mo ago

THAT'S SO 🤘 EMOJI BATTLE #2026MMM #2026mmm Round 1 🦡🆚💉: 🦡👃💉/💉⛓️‍💥👚/🏆🦡 🪏🆚🤏: 🪏🤏🦗/🤏🛫🦗/🏆🪏 🦎🆚🦇: 🦎🎈🫁/🦇🛫🔚/🏆🦎 👄🆚🦴: 👄🐟🏊‍♂️/🦴💀🧹/🏆👄 🐁🆚🦂: 🦂🧯🐁/🐁🍽️🦂/🏆🐁 📿🆚🥶: 📿🫦🥶/📿🍽️🥶/🏆📿 🪱🆚🐦‍⬛: 🪱🦷🦵/🐦‍⬛🔪🪱/🏆🐦‍⬛ 🥸🆚🐛: 🥸🦴🆙/🦴⬇️🐛/🏆🥸

V Pellicer- looking for work!@veppart.bsky.social · 5mo ago

YOU GUYS IT'S HAPPENING. THANK YOU @veppart.bsky.social #2026MMM #2026mmm

#2026MMM #2026mmm @opellisms.bsky.social 's Cicada Killer Wasp is now available as apparel! Get yours here; ermineainc.org/product/cica...

V Pellicer- looking for work!@veppart.bsky.social · 5mo ago

#2026MMM #2026mmm @opellisms.bsky.social 's Cicada Killer Wasp is now available as apparel! Get yours here; ermineainc.org/product/cica...

Jess Popescu@jesspopescu.bsky.social · 5mo ago

NONONO LIKE TONIGHT'S BATTLES ONLY MY BAD. The rest is not like that. #2026mmm #2026MMM

I GOT THESE ALL RIGHT!!! WHAAAAAT. #2026MMM #2026mmm

March Mammal Madness@mmmletsgo.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I GOT THESE ALL RIGHT!!! WHAAAAAT. #2026MMM #2026mmm

THAT'S SO METAL ROUND 1 WINNERS #2026MMM #2026mmm Honey Badger, Least Shrew, Common Chuckwalla, Pacific Lamprey, Southern Grasshopper Mouse, Gila Monster, Shrike, and Ossifrage! Please join us TOMORROW (Thurs. 3/19) at 8PM EST for Round 2 of both Money Mammals and Library Legends!

V Pellicer- looking for work!@veppart.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This. On a shirt. Yes. #2026MMM #2026mmm

#2026MMM #2026mmm #BoneyardDivision #TeamCicadaKillerWasp Art by Olivia Pellicer @opellisms.bsky.social

On a black background, a centered dorsal view black, orange, and red wasp; framed by the broken up text "CICADA KILLER WASP" in a spiky white font

💀 IS FOREVER EMOJI BATTLE #2026MMM Round 1 🐮🆚🐭:🐭🍽️👶🏼/🐮🌊🐭/🏆🐮 🐐🆚🦦:🏜️💨🦦/🦦➡️🪨/🏆🐐 🐬🆚🐀:🌋🐕🐀/🐀🏊‍♂️🪨/🏆🐬 🦭🆚🦘:🏌️‍♂️🦭😴/🦘🏖️😬/🏆🦘 🐯🆚🐹:🪄🐹🙂/🐯🍽️🐹/🏆🐯 🐂🆚🐁:🐁🍽️🌾/🦶🐁😰/🏆🐂 🐺🆚🧥:🐺🧥🐧/🧥😡🐺/🏆🧥 🐪🆚🦇:〽️🦇🐀/🦇🆙👋/🏆🐪