March Mammal Madness is similar to the NCAA Tournament. But there are some key differences: Instead of the Elite Eight, it’s the Elite Trait. Instead of a Final Four, it’s a Final Roar. OnlyAGameNPR
. I made jokes about there being a — instead of an"Elite Eight," it was an"Elite Trait." Instead of a"Final Four," it was a"Final RoarKH: There was a lot of people that just were having a lot of fun with it. And part of it, it stretched across our spring break. And I was in South Africa in the Kalahari, doing some pilot work on a potential research project.
Using what we know about their weaponry, their armor, their defense styles, their ambush or attack tactics, we do a kind of rough probability of what we expect the outcome to be. And then we use a random number generator to determine what the outcome actually is. And then what we do is, when there's an unexpected outcome, we go into the literature, the academic scientific literature, and we find some kind of plausible explanation for this outcome.
KG: Well, so as you suggest, not every single one of these matchups is going to be a thriller. Could you tell me about — there's apparently a famous matchup from a couple of years ago. And you're gonna have to help me with this. The"dhole" and the"binturong"? The binturong eats a lot of fruit. They particularly like figs. And it was going up against a clear carnivore, a predator. So most people would have predicted that the dhole, the dog relative, would have won. But at the time, because we craft these stories, there can be things that happen in previous rounds that carry forward and have an impact on how a species performs in the tournament. And the day before...
You know, the series of bouts, the play-by-play, it's a couple hours of activity. And so it has that same kind of jumping up and down, screaming, fury, joy that you get from watching a really exciting sports event.
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