Otters and Mammals from SE Asia – new report
Matt and Maureen Steer’s year long otter and other mammals global safari continues with a report from SE Asia where they got the otter trifector and saw some other nice stuff
New Trip Report – India
Coke Smith and his family spent 3 weeks in India over Christmas and pretty much cleaned up. A trip report is linked here. Highlights include Striped Hyena, Sloth Bear, Capped Langu
Southern Flying Squirrels in DC
I met up with John Fox last weekend and enjoyed meeting him and seeing a few flying squirrels around Arlington. Photos are here I have no idea where I am going next 🙁 Jon
Egyptian Golden Jackals are actually wolves
Interesting new study indicating that an unusual subspecies of Golden Jackal actually represents the earliest diverging lineage of holarctic wolf. http://www.plosone.org/article/in
Spotlights & Flight Regulations
I just received a question about taking spotlights on flights from fellow mammal watcher Greg Easton, and thought I might see what others’ experience has been. In August, whe
Monk Seals and Humpback Dolphins threatened by fishing in Mauritania
Some research on two interesting species off of the Mauritanian coast. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110121081049.htm
Polar Bear’s Epic 9 Day Swim
This is interesting Polar bear’s feat of endurance could reveal the potential impacts of climate change. http://blog.arkive.org/2011/01/polar-bear-nine-day-swim/
New Trip Report – Belize
Alan Dahl was back in Belize last year and has a nice report on http://focusedonnature.blogspot.com/2010_08_01_archive.html Mammals included Red Brocket Deer and Grey Fox jon
Madagascar, 2010 Trip Report
Like all self-respecting mammal watchers I have long wanted to visit Madagascar. But something had held me back. I think this was largely the fact that my Madagascar trip would be
Ferrets
Here’s my latest piece for The Nature Conservancy’s Cool Green Science blog, on black-footed ferrets. It’s based on my trip to see the ferrets with Jon Hall and h