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I’m going to have to insist Bluesky entertain me now that #2025MMM is over and the GOP has just tanked the market and is about to trigger a major global recession. 🐿️

An Eastern Grey Squirrel standing on grass. An emoji-style horned “Viking” helmet has been added to the photo.

March Mammal Madness #2025MMM concludes with POLAR BEAR winning it all! In the final round, set at Icelandic hot springs because of MMMagic reasons, the Puma brought down a caribou -- but the Polar Bear chased it off the kill!

I picked the winner, and had my best bracket in years: 117 points out of a possible 138.

A completed March Mammal Madness 2025 bracket, showing that the participant earned 117 out of a possible 138 points. The final winner was the Polar Bear. A ginkgo tree with its symbiont fungus did surprisingly well, winning their battles in the first three rounds.

Y'all remember my #2025MMM March Mammal Madness bracket? Here's the update:

Although my loyalty to marmots and other scuridae usually limits my score, I'm going into the finals having correctly forecast the last two competitors: it'll be Puma vs. Polar Bear!

#GoPolarBear

A bracket for the annual "March Mammal Madness" contest, marked up to show which animals (and in some cases, trees or fungi) have won so far. Although the diagram reveals many incorrect picks, the round 5 predictions -- puma and polar bear -- were correct.

Has this been happening the whole time during Polar Bear’s encounters in #2025MMM? 🐻‍❄️

Two images of a polar bear mother with her cub clinging to her rear, out of her sight. Text says “Excuse me, have you seen my son?” (Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/AnimalMemes/s/1iNUQ98DdW )

The real reason Narwhal was defeated in #2025MMM: a giant sweet tooth.

The book cover of Ben Clanton’s illustrated children’s book “Narwhal’s Sweet Tooth.” The cover features Narwhal’s horn holding cake, a doughnut, and a waffle.

Alas poor Gingko, I gnawed them well. #2025MMM #TeamGingko 🌳🦫

Cats when they look up and notice they have no chance of winning #2025MMM. 😾 #CatScandal #CatsAreSilly #cats

The real #CatScandal is that a cat couldn’t even defeat a balloon animal.
😾⚔️🦖🎈 #2025MMM #cats

@joeycastillo I gave 4o and o3 shots at it. I gotta figure out how they’re doing. They both picked the Kangaroo for the Elite Trait, so not great. #2025MMM

Have your picks for #2025MMM been treated unfairly by the March Mammal Madness Random Number Generator (MMMRNG)? Are you a peace-loving mammal or mammal ally? You can refuse to be a victim of algorithms and probabilities! Escape with #2021MMM ‘s Red & White Giant Flying Squirrel to a better place! 🐿️

I'll admit it, the first round in #MarchMammalMadness #2025MMM has already posted. But you have my word as a responsible tooter that I didn't look at the wild card results before coming up with my bracket.

If you've saw my starting bracket last year, you'll see similarities this year: I don't play to win. I give heavy bonuses to marmots (check out my user pic!), squirrels (close relatives of marmots), and cats.

If you're intrigued by the bracket but don't know what I'm talking about, read more at https://libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalMadness

A March Mammal Madness 2025 bracket. Of the 65 competitors in 4 categories (Same & Different, The Only Ones, Tuxedo Style, and Roots & Relicts) the ones predicted to meet in the final round are the Polar Bear vs the Puma -- with Polar Bear selected as the likely winner.

An important question as everyone prepares their #2025MMM brackets:
🦍🐒 #primates

A grey squirrel says “I've just been informed that "Apes are just very fat monkeys." Could someone please confirm this for me?”

Yes, even cats #CantTrustPigeons. A naive cat would defeated by a pigeon in #2025MMM. 🙀 #catscandal

I have made a special journey to the Gulf of Mexico this week just so I can meet with the Paca (Cuniculus paca) — called the Tepezcuintle in Aztec or Jaleb in the Yucutan Peninsula— just to show solidarity with a member of #TeamRodent before their first round in #2025MMM. https://youtu.be/2wGMYH0O95M?feature=shared

Cats can’t decide whether to avert their eyes from the coming cat disaster in #2025MMM or to stare at it in horror. 🙀 #CatScandal #CatsAreSilly #cats

#HappyOkapi, because not all Champions need to be mean. #2025MMM #GentleGiant

Two colourful statues of an okapi painted in completely unnatural bright colours. The words “Happy Okapi” are written above in wild, colourful letters.

Taking a moment to remember the #2023MMM #AltAdvances Champion, the #HappyOkapi, who made it to the March Mammal Madness finals and was never defeated. #2025MMM

Since the Mountain Zebra (Equus zebra) is in #2025MMM, here is a timely reminder from #SquirrelMeme that zebras are not simply donkeys with racing stripes. They’re a whole different species!
🦓 🏁 🫏 #zebra

A grey squirrel says “Scientists have now proven that zebras are not donkeys with racing stripes.”

In #2025MMM, weasels have learnt to lower their expectations. #TeamMustelid 🦦

Cats definitely won’t like this next leak from #2025MMM pre-planning discussions. 😿 #CatsAreSilly #CatScandal

#2025MMM

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