After duking it out over nature’s most beautiful spotted and striped animals, scientists on Twitter are now submitting some good beards for consideration. You can check out all of them via the hashtag #BestBeard, but just so you know there are definitely some tweets with that hashtag that have absolutely nothing to do with the important discussion at hand.

This particular debate was kicked off by Dustin Ranglack, an assistant professor at the University of Nebraska at Kearney who specializes in mammal ecology and conservation. He named a bison’s beard as nature’s best beard, but no one agreed with him (which is what makes this fun, so it’s fine!).

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