2017 was the second year I played, and this year I got to narrate a rematch in the Elite Traits... #MMMagic for real... #2026MMM
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Thank you again to all the presenters, writers, researchers, artists, and everyone else who makes the #MMMagic happen!
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Aurochs arrives via #MMMagic translocation from 12th century Europe squinting as his eyes adjust to the bright desert light. Aurochs finds himself next to the Camel! #2026MMM
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Gila Monster, resting after her exhausted day of doing something, is basking in the sun when #MMMagic translocates her to the mountains of France, a bit below and off to the side from the Ossifrage nest and her chicks #2026MMM
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Wither fewer people about, the urban Gray Fox trots across roads & through the Tempe Town Park to scamper toward a water access place when #MMMagic translocates Gray Fox to swampland with waters flowing into Lake Victoria. #2026MMM
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As Lamprey (and salmon) enter a strong marine current #MMMagic transports them next to the latrine! #2026MMM #2026mmm
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Standing in the water, Camel stretches his neck to lift his head to reach the highest branches and leaves of a wild ancestral ficus just as
#MMMagic translocates Sea Mink from Maine's coastal waters with a hard-shelled invertebrate clenched in his mighty mustelid jaws.
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a prominent peak breaks up the hily desert floor that has a lot of cacti!
Southern Grasshopper Mouse, having feasted on the whip scorpion has continued actively hunting the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area when #MMMagic translocates mouse to the Picacho Mtns, about 500 miles away (or 2.36 million stoat lengths) #2026MMM #2026MMM
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She collapses through the #MMMagic translocation portal Saudi Gazelle stumbles onto the massive Steller's Sea Cow... #2026MMM
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Their breeding season starts in March, so our male bilby is ready to find love. As he exits his nighttime burrow, Yallara hops through a #MMMagic portal that suddenly appears and finds himself along another watery shoreline... #NotAgain #2026MMM
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Shrike's wounded leg from the Bloodworm's gruesome bite is healing slowly, the time in the mudflats introducing myriad bacteria. Shrike leans down to swipe with her beak at the inflamed wound when #MMMagic trans-locates Shrike to the Pyrennes on the EDGE OF OSSIFRAGE'S NEST! #2026MMM
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Meanwhile, in Chincoteague, Least Shrew with high metabolic demands is hunting crickets and snails in the grass tunnels created by small rodents when #MMMagic translocates Least Shrew to the Kalahari #2026MMM
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Little boy Oliver walks with his good friend Sadie the Dog toward the stacks so he can look at books to select the best one for Sadie when
#MMMagic translocates LIBRARY CAT to the Children's Book shelves of the UNFAMILIAR Library!
(Giraudet et al. 2022) #2026MMM
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After White Stork settled the disput(ation) between Bird and Fish, #MMMagic translocates him from his breeding range of the Mesopotamian marshes... his ALSO familiar winter range! #BirdsGetAround #2026MMM #2026mmm
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But Orangutan's terrestrial traversal is interrupted by #MMMagic translocation & he arrives at a break between trees along the Limpopo River- it's a riparian corridor where hippos regularly enter & exit the river! #2026MMM
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MEANWHILE, as Oryx begins to settle down for the night he is translocated by #MMMagic to a strange new landscape. Gone is the dry air. Gone are the open flats. Instead, Oryx is surrounded by dense, humid air & a sea of lush green vegetation. #2026MMM
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Our frozen salamander's glycerol lowers freezing point so that freeze/thaw doesn't kill the critter #CryoProtectant! But if too cold, blood vessels rupture & cells stressed so best to not be frozen for too long... when #MMMagic translocates Salamander to the desert of Arizona! #2026MMM #2026mmm
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Grasshopper tries to hop away with one good hoppy leg,
but grasshopper careens off kilter
directly INTO Planigale arriving from #MMMagic Translocation!
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Moving quickly, Uropygi's front legs move like a 'seeing eye cane', to take place of his bad vision. He is about to snatch a cricket when #MMMagic relocates him into Red Rock Canyon #ChangeOfSceneAintNoThing #2026MMM #2026mmm
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#MMMagic translocates the pale, plump, blind, 32 mm wasp larva to a limestone rock outcrop in the Pyrenees beside the carcass of a domestic sheep who lost his herd last summer and was taken by a brown bear. Wasp larva writhes weakly, overwhelmed by light and exposure. #2026MMM #2026mmm
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Colored photograph of Sturt Stony Desert landscape. Soil is mostly red and sandy. Foreground includes small grasses with yellow flowers randomly distributed in bunches. Background includes only a few skinny trees with small green leaves, and bright blue sky. Photo credit to Natphotos via Getty Images.
MEANWHILE, Yallara hops through open plains bordering the Sturt Stony Desert in South Australia (Vernes et al 2021). Yallara forages for a tasty meal while safely avoiding introduced predators, when #MMMagic suddenly transports it to Caribbean Monk Seal's molting beach! #2026MMM
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