Last night’s March Mammal Madness recap:
we begin with the excitement of long-eared hedgehog’s coming victory
The gloating continues:
helpful science is offered:
There are some battles. They are interesting. Then guanaco is up. The guanaco is awesome.
Charon Henning’s art for the event is excellent. Here’s the jerboa:
The hedgehog is up:
The crowd is excited:
We offer support/facts, as does the biologist running the battle:
The hedgehog makes a strong start:
but loses on a technicality:
The crowd is upset:
None dare call it a conspiracy except for a select few:
Gila Monster defeats the meerkats and gloats.
There is counter-gloating:
and a bit of sniping
and that’s our sad tale of a hedgehog losing in a battle to an antelope…
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And the hedgehog wanders off to look at space/space travel.etc.
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hecep
March 10, 2017, 11:43pm
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Porn. Hedgehog. For some reason, Richard Gere comes to mind.
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And now, Hedgehogs In Space
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An artfully rendered fact.
An almost completely undetectable fact.
A curiouser and curiouser fact.
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Fact: this took much longer to do than it first seemed like it would.
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I wish I could like it twice just for the Alice one.
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Do all hedgehogs like football, or is it only this one?
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Some hedgehogs are sports fans, others less so. Her Highness is a big Quidditch fan.
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Speaking of Quidditch, a hedgehog fact directly from The Quibbler.
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nemomen
March 18, 2017, 11:25pm
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Also, because I’m a perhaps a little compulsive sometimes, I spent a couple more hours on the Jacques-Louis David painting and it’s so much better now:
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Is the sabre just for show? How would a hedge draw the sabre during the impressive Calvary charge?
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it’s a toothpick. Where else would he carry it?
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nemomen
March 18, 2017, 11:38pm
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It was in the original, and while it took a while to reconstruct and get the shading where I wanted it, it seemed fitting for such a heroic and dramatic art work. I like to think General Aquilles von Pokesworth (a name I just decided on) had some capacity to hold it aloft when leading bold charges against enemy owls…
Sidebar: hedgehogs have a long running enmity with owls and there’s some recently discovered evidence of them holding swords:
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nemomen
March 18, 2017, 11:39pm
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Side-sidebar, sometimes there are periods of peace between owl and hedgehog:
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I wondered after seeing this video of the relationship was “It’s Complicated”
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nemomen
March 18, 2017, 11:51pm
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Yes, it’s complicated…
Sometimes friendly:
Sometimes not…
Oh, since long-eared hedgehog was in March Mammal Madness, their fearsomeness was illustrated kind of obsessively:
Alas, they lost to a saiga antelope. Now we’re Team #SaigaMustLose .
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