Trip report: Indonesia 2018
Trip report – Indonesia 2018 by Tomer Ben-Yehuda. Java –> Sulawesi –> Bali –>Komodo –> Bali (with another night excursion to Java) –
A Sulawesi Dwarf Squirrel Question
I will probably stand corrected again (as was the case with my ‘non’ servaline genet)… but I have a strong feeling that other than the whitish dwarf squirrel, the
Can the Sumatran Rhino be saved from certain extinction? :-(
Here is a rather depressing article about the state of the Sumatran Rhino, as recent as November, 2017. This is a 4-part (longish) article from Mongabay, which basically states tha
Trip report to Cameroon and the Central African Republic
Trip report to CAR and Cameroon Here is my trip report from Cameroon and the Central African Republic. Really, mostly the CAR, but a few sepcies on the way to/from Yaounde. We ende
It’s time for “Helping Tomer Identify Small Mammals based on Terrible Pictures!”
So I didn’t do my homework on small mammals before goign to the CAR… So I kind of learned some of the squirrels and galagos as I went along. Well, the red-legged sun sq
A Genet Question from Dzanga Bai
Hi everyone! I have a question to anyone who might be an “expert” in genets, and specifically to Vladimir Dinets, who actually saw what was most likely the same individ
Your Biggest Miss of the year (and targets for next year)
So every year it’s interesting to hear what people are after for the next year to come… But also I was wondering what everybody’s biggest miss was for 2016. Fo
Last-minute Invite to Sangha Lodge
Hi everyone! So as we’re finalizing the Dzangha-Sangha trip, we have narrowed in on dates (non-flexible, due to lodge availability and other factors) and we have figured out
My Trip Report from South Africa
Holy shit that came out a long report… But I guess 23 days (of which about half were “safari” days) and so many places, make for a long story. I do feel like I
It’s your favorite game: Name That Species
See? You liked the title.. and who doesn’t like to help a fellow mammal watcher identify species So here are a few species I saw in South Africa that I would like to ID befor