Book Review: Complete Guide to Finding the Mammals of Australia
David Andrew’s new book, The Complete Guide to Finding the Mammals of Australia, is essential reading for anyone wanting to find some of Australia’s fabulous critters.
New Trip Report – Australia
Here’s a new report from Steve Morgan, just back from Western Australia, Queensland and Tasmania: 4 weeks & 45 species including Tiger Quoll, Honey Possum and Eastern Lon
Mammals in the News
A few recent stories that caught my eye. I was expecting some sort of online tool to identify birds and it has arrived (though I anticipated more of a Shazam for bird song). Now wh
Mammals in the news
A few of the articles that caught my eye recently include a couple based on African-research: Why Elephants Are As Ritualistic and Violent As the Mafia; and this piece on the genet
Mammals in the News
Some recent articles include a couple on rarely known Central African primates: Rembrandt’s Monkey and Bouvier’s Red Colobus (Piliocolobus bouvieri). Some great camera trap
New Trip Report – Australia & a day in Hong Kong
Dominique Brugiere is just back from yet another trip, this time 6 weeks in southern Australia. Australia & Hong Kong 2015: Dominique Brugiere, 6 weeks & some nice species
New Trip Report – Australia
A new report from southern Australia Tasmania, Victoria & South Australia, 2014: Juan Luis Ortega, 2.5 weeks & 28 species including Tiger Quoll, Broad-toothed Rat and Giles
Mammals in the News
A couple of newspapers picked up some spectacular mammal action this past week: Paris Match had this slideshow of a Crocodile’s foolish attempt to take on an Elephant, while
Going, going, gone… 200 years and counting
A new paper, this week, from John Woinarski and his colleagues in Australia, is a sweeping and utterly depressing account of the continuing decline in Australian mammals. Can someo
Obscure New Guinea Bandicoots
This is an uber-long shot I know but does anyone have a photo of one of the 4 species of Microperoryctes bandicoots – Striped Bandicoot, Mouse Bandicoot, Arfak Pygmy Bandicoo