Welcome to mammal madness!
where the battles are fake but the facts are real!
Pine River Library 2021 Summer Learning Program What is Mammal Madness? You've heard of March Madness basketball brackets, but this summer, the Pine River Library is running a "Mammal Madness" competition! Each week, two animals will battle it out, with the winner continuing on to the next round and an overall winner being chosen on Friday, July 30. And there's a special twist to our battles: you are going to be determining the winners each week! We'll give you the situation for how the battle starts and then from there you tell us who you think would win- write it out and/or draw us a picture!
How it works Get your submissions (i.e. your completed "Ready to Rumble" sheets at the end of the packet) turned in by end of the day on Thursday for each week's battle. Just tear each "Ready to Rumble" sheet out and then drop your entry off at the library. You can also tag us in a photo of your sheet on Instagram (@pineriverlibrary) or Facebook (@Pine River Library- Bayfield's Public Library). You can also take a pic of your submission and email it to [email protected].
What are we looking for in a winning submission? Use of animal facts in your explanation for who won. Check out the animal fact sheets provided or do your own research! Creative & fun descriptions of why you chose a winner.
What do the winning submissions get? Weekly winners get a Pinecone gift card. Championship winner will get a stuffed animal of the winning animal! PLUS each submission is also entered for in the SLP prize drawings!
How do we find out who won each week? Winners are announced on Facebook and Instagram at noon each Friday! You can also stop by the library to see who won or give us a call at 970-884-2222 ext. 1 MY Mammal Madness Bracket
Egg-posters Mythical Beasties
platyzilla narwhal
June 18th July 2nd WINNER WINNER
spiny anteater sphinx monkey WINNER
July 16th July 23rd Moar Kittehs! #ColoradoNative CHAMPION July 30 pika kodkod
WINNER July 9th June 25th WINNER WINNER Ord's kangaroo rat jaguarundi Battle Schedule
Week 1 (June 18th): Week 2 (June 25th): Egg-posters Moar Kittehs
Week 3 (July 2nd): Week 4 (July 9th): Mythical Beasties #ColoradoNative
Week 5 (July 16th): Winner of Egg-posters vs. Winner of Moar Kittehs
Week 6 (July 23rd): Winner of Mythical Beasties vs. Winner of #CoNative
Week 7 (July 30th): CHAMPIONSHIP BATTLE (Week 5 Winner vs. Week 6 Winner) Week 1: Egg-posters
Platyzilla and the spiny anteater belong to the order Monotreme. These egg layers are mammal imposters stumping biologists around the world. They lay eggs but they also produce milk for their young. Here is where it gets gross: they sweat milk out of their pores! So while they do not actually have mammary glands to nurse from, their young do consume milk. These animals also both have electroreceptors, which basically means they can sense prey through their noses/bills! These receptors work better in water, which is why platyzilla has more!
PLATYZILLA SPINY ANTEATER ONLY EXTINCT CONTESTANT LIVING 5-25 MILLIAN YEARS AGO!!
40 inches SIZE 12-18 inches, 10-13 lbs.
Turtles, fish, & frogs DIET Ants & termites
14-16 years in the wild, Unknown LIFESPAN 50 years in captivity
HABITAT Freshwater in Australia Forests in Australia
40,000 electroreceptors in 2,000 electroreceptors in nose COOL FACTS bill & they could CRUSH & they are expert diggers with turtles with their teeth! protective spines!
THREATS/ Dogs, foxes, & cats. Snakes will Unknown PREDATORS prey on (eat) their babies. Week 2: Moar kittehs
JAGUARUNDI KODKOD
35-55 inches, 6-20 lbs. SIZE 13-20 inches, 3.3-6.6 lbs.
Rodents, rabbits, armadillos, DIET Birds, lizards & rodents birds, frogs, & fish
Up to 15 years in captivity LIFESPAN Up to 11 years
Anywhere from forests to swampy mangroves to deserts HABITAT Dense vegitation in Chile in Latin America (except for Chile & southern Argentina).
13 different types of vocal Smallest American cat, calls, can leap up to 6.6 ft in COOL FACTS excellent climbers the air to catch a bird!
Habitat destruction/human Habitat destruction to open THREATS/ encroachment, cougars, dogs, up lands for grazing and PREDATORS & boa constrictors plantations. Week 3: Mythical Beasties
UNICORN OF THE SPHINX MONKEY SEA (NARWHAL) (MANDRILL)
17 feet, 4,200 lbs. SIZE 30-37 inches, 42-82 lbs.
Omnivorous (eats EVERYTHING: Halibut, cod, shrimp, & squid DIET plants, fruits, insects, soil, even small antelope)
Up to 50 years LIFESPAN Up to 31 years in captivity
Arctic waters of Canada, HABITAT Forests in Africa Greenland, Norway, & Russia
Have food pouches like a Their horn is actually an chipmunk for storing food, enlarged canine (tooth) that COOL FACTS live in huge groups of up to can grow up to 10 feet long! 845 members!
Habitat disruption by Leopards, crowned eagles, & shipping boats & oil/gas THREATS/ African rock python, also development- the noise PREDATORS hunted by humans disrupts their communication & hunting. Week 4: #Coloradonative
ORD'S PIKA*CHU* KANGAROO RAT
7-8 in., 4-12.5 oz. SIZE 12.5 in. (6 in. tail), 2.5 oz.
Herbivores (eat grasses, Granivores (eat the grains on DIET wildflowers, & weeds) grasses, weeds, & flowers)
Average 7 years LIFESPAN Up to 7 years in captivity
Rock shelters on mountaintops, they CANNOT survive in Sandy areas along dry stream HABITAT temperatures over 77.8 beds and grasslands degrees Fahrenheit
Eat their own poop (like Nocturnal (awake at night), rabbits), they are the COOL FACTS they are weak diggers but inspiration behind Pikachu! SUPER jumpers!
Climate change (warming temperatures on the tops of THREATS/ Coyotes, badgers, bobcats, mountains), weasels, foxes, PREDATORS kit foxes, hawks, & snakes coyotes, & birds of prey ready to rumble: Week 1 Platyzilla vS. Anteater
THE SCENE: *Crash* *Boom!* A blinding light flashes in front of the anteaters eyes. They slowly blink them and the world comes back into focus. Everything has changed the flora (plants) and fauna (animals) all look different, bigger... prehistoric. With a surprising twist the anteater has been transported BACK in time by 10 million years! Across the pond the anteater sees a platyzilla make a slow, lazy circle as they change directions to head straight towards them... WHO WINS THE BATTLE?
Winner: MY NAME: PHone: ready to rumble: week 2 Kodkod vs. Jaguarundi
THE SCENE: Due to habitat destruction the kodkod has been forced out of their Chilean territory, braving the Andes mountains and finding themselves in northern Argentina. As they are stalking a bird through the dense forest they pick up the scent of a new animal... another predator. With a quick look around the forest they see an adult Jaguarundi lazily watching them from the tree... WHO WINS THE BATTLE?
Winner: MY NAME: PHone: ready to rumble: Week 3 Narwhal vs. Mandrill
THE SCENE: Ruh Roh! The zookeepers have left all the cages unlocked and now all the terrestrial (land animals) are wandering the zoo. The mandrill starts off strutting around so confidently, but SUDDENLY they turn the corner and come face to face with a leopard! They leap into action, racing around until they find themselves trapped on edge the narwhals tank... WHO WINS THE BATTLE?
Winner: MY NAME: PHone: ready to rumble: week 4 Pika vs. Ord's Kangaroo Rat
THE SCENE: A kangaroo rat accidentally mistook Summer's backpack for a safe place to sleep during the day. When they peek their head out that night everything feels colder, crisper, and NOT warm. They have been packed up a mountain! In the distance they hear an almost bird-like squawk- it's a small fluff ball (a pika!) calling out a warning before disappearing into the rocks, headed straight for them! WHO WINS THE BATTLE?
Winner: MY NAME: PHone: ready to rumble: week 5 vs.
THE SCENE: Time travelers from the future have messed with our whole space- time continuum. Animals are popping in and out of their normal time and are transported millions of years into their past and future. In this battle the winner of the Moar Kittehs battle is facing off against the winner of the Egg-posters battle in the year 3245.... WHO WINS THE BATTLE?
Winner: MY NAME: PHone: ready to rumble: week 6 vs.
THE SCENE: A terrible tsunami has freakishly hit the West Coast, picking up everything and everyone and dropping them off in COLORADO! Here we pit the winner of Mythical Beasties battle against the winner of the #CoNatives battle... WHO WINS THE BATTLE?
Winner: MY NAME: PHone: ready to rumble: week 7 CHAMPIONsHIP BATTLE! vs.
Woo we made it to the CHAMPIONSHIP battle! This week you get to set the scene by creating the battle set up AND you get to choose the champion! THE SCENE
MAMMAL MADness CHAMPION: MY NAME: PHone: