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I spent 8 weeks backpacking around Mexico in 1989. I don't remember seeing any mammals, though I wasn't really looking and spent a good deal of my time doubled-up in pain in the toilets of various long distance coaches.

Mark Earl Olson Zunica from the Institute of Biology at Mexico's National University, got in touch with me about using a photo in a book. Mark has the misfortune to study plants, not mammals ... someone has to I suppose ;-) .... but he cannot help but run into things with four legs. He said

"I work quite a bit at the Chamela-Cuixmala reserve on the central coast of Jalisco state, where there are scads of Jaguars, Pumas, Ocelots, Jaguarundis (the latter are especially easy to see), Coatimundis, Peccaries, Deer, Foxes, and more bats that I imagined existed. I was recently on Cozumel Island in the Caribbean and had the privilege of getting my bag of pastries stolen by the endemic dwarf Cozumel Raccoon. As my wife says: endemic, but not stupid.

Jaguarundi are the easiest cats to see because they seem to frequent the edges of towns and dumps. I followed the footsteps of one for several kilometers along a beach in the wet sand just outside the wave wash. The Cozumel Raccoons are also easy to see by driving at night through the mangroves to the northern lagoon, not far north of downtown."

Curtis Hart also passed on some information about Margays from a herpetology message board, where a subscriber called Crotalus reports seeing them quite often (1 or 2 during a 5 night trip). Curtis followed up with him to get the following information "I've seen them most commonly in Colima and Michoacan on roads through intact tropical deciduous forest during the summer months. They are generally just doing something on the shoulder of the highway. Coati, javelin, and opossum are common. Coyotes are around, but not all that common. Tamandua and jaguarundi are present, but rare. Locals say there are both pumas and jaguars, but I've only seen a puma once. "

See Also
ID help wanted with Mexican mammals (March 2010).

Other People's Trip Reports
Mexico, 2011: Hugh Buck, a month mainly birding but with 17 mammal species.

Baja California, 2010 : Coke Smith, 12 days & 21 species including Kit Foxes and an American Badger. See more photos and the report on his site too.