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Here’s the next round of March Mammal Madness art!! How about those Waterfalls division battles last night, huh?
Featuring the Rakali (Australian Water Rat), Moonrat, Greater Bulldog Bat (Fisherman Bat), Yapok (Water Opossum), and Manatee.
Well that wraps up the art I did for March Mammal Madness round 4 winners. Not much more left to go on this project.
Bengal tiger and California sea lion.
March Mammal Madness
In case you missed it, March Mammal Madness has already started! What you may say is that?
As an alternative to College Basketball’s March Madness, Dr. Katie Hinde, currently at Arizona State University, began a bracket tournament that pits mammals against one another and sometimes other odd creatures.
The Section of Mammals is very excited about this year’s tournament with all staff members having made their predictions. Three of us have picked the Bengal tiger as the ultimate champion, one has the small spotted cat shark, and two others have chosen tag teams (coyote & badger on the one hand and batfly and gammaproteobacteria on the other).
For more details on this year’s tournament, click here.
The only repercussion so far is that our lunch time includes a certain amount of trash talk. One of the upsets in the first round was the streaked tenrec defeating the markhor (a small hedgehog-like mammal versus a large screw-horned goat). The markhor had the advantage of size and home turf, but the tenrec won by poking the markhor in the face with its quills.
John Wible is Curator in the Section of Mammals at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Museum employees are encouraged to blog about their unique experiences working at the museum.
More March Mammal Madness art! Still getting caught up with posting it, but nearly done now.
This piece was a collaboration between myself and my sister @opellisms
March Mammal Madness is over! Here’s my moose painting for the Final Roar bout. Tried something more dramatic and dynamic than the others I’d made so far. Also tried to balance the color palette more. Success??
I must admit I’ve known since February that the tiger would win.
March Mammal Madness’ sweet sixteen art! I’m really happy with these! It was a challenge to one-up myself from these for the Elite Trait art...
Featuring: Tiger Quoll, Nine-banded Armadillo, Loggerhead Turtle and Columbus Crab (#TeamCrabberhead), and the Rakali.
Elite Trait, babey! More March Mammal Madness art. It’s winding down, and there can only be one winner!
Tiger Quoll and Manatee.
I can FINALLY share some of my March Mammal Madness artwork!!
These were tweeted last night in the official tournament bouts, and wow it was tons of fun!! You can follow the action here: https://twitter.com/2019MMMletsgo
