#carnivora

New Zealand Sea Lion Phocarctos hookeri

It is endemic to New Zealand and primarily breeds on New Zealand's subantarctic Auckland and Campbell islands, and have in recent years been slowly breeding and recolonising around the coast of New Zealand's South and Stewart islands. The New Zealand sea lion numbers around 12,000 and is one of the world's rarest sea lion species.

In the breeding season, female New Zealand sea lions gradually move inland with their pups to protect them from harassment by males, wind, storms, and potential parasitic infections. They can move up to 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) inland, from sandy beaches to tall grasses, and into forests.

Broad-striped Malagasy Mongoose Galidictis fasciata

It is endemic to eastern Madagascar. The broad-striped Malagasy mongoose is nocturnal. It forages alone or in pairs, and uses its keen sense of smell and hearing to detect prey. The mongoose is carnivorous and its diet mainly consists of insects, small reptiles, amphibians, and small mammals, which it digs out from soil and leaf litter. Known as vontsira in the Malagasy language.

My money’s on Tati bc she’s on roids but I need to know fr

hmmmm that’s a tough one. tati’s been wanting to kill him for years now and he is conveniently never in one place long enough for her to get to him, if that’s any indication. though who knows? he may just be fucking around. it’s hard to tell what’s a legitimate concern to megantereon and what’s just him being lazy and uninterested. he definitely likes his odds against tati much less than his odds against any of the other major players in the cast.

tatiana is much bigger and has more endurance, but never count out that megantereon is way more experienced and can do massive damage in a single hit on account of how stupid his teeth are. real tank vs dps matchup.

i think it depends on the arena, honestly. if it’s flat and open, tatiana could put him on the back foot and exhaust him into submission (there’s always that puncher’s chance, though. one slip up and megantereon could kill her in a moment). if there’s dense cover and uneven terrain, megantereon has the advantage of ambush as well as being far more vertically mobile due to his leopardine climbing habits.

Small-toothed Palm Civet Arctogalidia trivirgata

Found in dense forests of Southeast Asia, from Assam, India, to Indonesia. The diet is varied and omnivorous, and usually consists of insects, small mammals, nesting birds, fruits, frogs and lizards. Matching the habits of other palm civets, this species is solitary, arboreal and nocturnal.