Moles above
Dear All, I am working on a paper about surface foraging in moles (marsupial moles, golden moles and shrew-moles are not included; I don’t yet know if I’ll focus on jus
New Borneo Mammals Field Guide
I just received a copy of the new Phillipps’s field guide to the mammals of Borneo. My first impression is that it looks like a very useful update on the now rather out
RFI Namibia And Botswana
Dear mammalogists, I have a request for information for people who have (recently) traveled to Namibia and Botswana. In august/september I’m visiting this area myself for
Whalewatching alert
After a few years’ gap, huge mixed herds of northern right-whale and Pacific white-sided dolphins are present in Monterey Bay, together with record numbers of transient kille
Nannomys
Small mice of subgenus Nannomys are among the most challenging African mammals for sight identification. If anybody needs a PDF of Bruja et al. (2014) review of this group, please
New (old) Trip Report: Gabon, Cameroons and the Congos
Here’s the final part of Vladimir Dinets’s 2009 memoirs featuring many species I have never seen and a lot I have never heard of. The Congos, Cameroon and Gabon, 2009:
Vole species…
I was just sent this picture from Ninigret NWR on Rhode Island Anyone like to guess what species it is? Jon
Another Clouded Leopard at Deramakot
They seem to be seeing them quite regularly at the moment. Check out this latest sighting (brace yourself Richard Webb and Phil Telfer!) Jon
Redwood Coast news
Last weekend Steve Linsley and I went on a 2-day, 3-night trip to the coast of N California and extreme S Oregon. The results were not what we expected. (1) We didn’t see any
Barbary Macaques
I was in Northern Morocco last week on what was mainly a birding trip and so didn’t really see any mammals of note. However, for information I thought I would mention tha