Amami and Tokuno Islands, Japan.
I just spent two nights/one day on Amami and 24 hours on Tokuno with two friends. Ferry crossings from/to Okinawa were over remarkably lifeless seas, except for one small area SW o
Northern Honshu
I spent a couple days in far northern Honshu; the weather was great and in some low-elevation areas almost every tree in the forest was in bloom – those slopes looked really
Hokkaido
I spent the last few days in Hokkaido looking (unsuccessfully) for bat roosts. Interesting sightings included: more than an hour of scope views of a pod of karasu beaked whales fro
Starting today, mammalwatching officially exists :-)
Our paper (with Jon Hall): Mammalwatching: A new source of support for science and conservation has just been published in IJBC. It’s open access: http://www.academicjournals
serow tracks
If anybody has photos of serow tracks, could you please email them to me (dinets at gmail)? I need them for a study I’m working on. If you have measurements or sketches of th
Hares of Erongo Mountains
Hares of Erongo Mountains in Namibia are often listed as scrub hares in trip reports. I saw a few hares there in August 2017 and they all looked like this one. I think it’s
Kirishima Mountains
I just spent three days with my family in Kirishima Mountains (S Kyushu). The weather was either very cold, very wet, or both, and all of us got flu during the trip, so I probably
Dromicops, Japan and Vietnam
Dear All, (1) I am writing a little manual about finding mammals in Japan. I’m planning to complete it in a year or two, but if you go there sooner, you are welcome to ask me
News and a question
Dear All, A year-round road to the Arctic Coast of Canada opened last week; you can now drive past Inuvik all the way to Toktoyaktuk. Dempster Highway has been my favorite road in
Kansai region, Japan
I spent three days in Kansai region of Honshu last week. I had meetings during the day, so could get outdoors only at night and early in the morning. A few good locations: Beechney