Mammal Watching Forum

Seems like Kenya is the new hot mammalwatching destination. Here are two more very recent reports. Kenya, October 2021: Andreas Jonsson, 12 days & 58 species including Hirola, Golden-rumped Elephant Shrew and Kenya Coastal Galago. Kenya Rare Mammals, November 2021: Martin Royle, 8 days & 100 species including Naked Mole Rat, Tana River Mangabey and Serval. jon

Since I seem to be doomed to posting mammalwatching trip reports from places where nobody would ever go for mammalwatching, here’s another one, a 1-page mammalwatching guide to the Virgin Islands: http://dinets.info/Dinets_VirginIslands.pdf. I spent a few days there back in July 2000 and saw 7 native species. Vladimir Dinets

Trip Report is here.

I just came back from a very short family vacation to Puerto Rico. Since it was my third trip there, I summarized everything I know into a 2-page mammalwatching guide to the island: http://dinets.info/Dinets_PuertoRico.pdf. I saw 14 native species there in about a month total time.

Hi guys,   2 weeks ago I had the pleasure of being in the Jaguarland/La Moneda Reserve in Bolivia. There are quite a few tripreports of this place now on this website. I saw a lot of good stuff but one mammal had us puzzled. It seemed to resemble Agouti the closest, but it was much smaller and also moved […]

Great news out of Gunung Leuser in Northern Sumatra! I hope and would like to believe it’s not too late! Work starts on new sanctuary for captive breeding of Sumatran rhinos

Hi All, I am looking for help if anybody knows rodents in the Chaparri area of Peru (north-west)! This is the area: https://chaparrilodge.com/ I saw small mammals (rodents) every evening around the cabins. Perhaps the same species all the time. I post 4 images – could be the same species… Could not find any publications about any small mammal trapping […]

A new trip report from Pictus Safaris featuring all sorts of goodies, including the first Kipunji in a trip report on this site. Mozambique, Tanzania and Kenya, 2021: Pictus Safaris, 30 days & 81 species including Ader’s Duiker, Maned Rat and Kipunji. Jon

I’ve been thinking of how one could make a friendly mammal watching competition were you have to watch in the country you live in that is relativly fair no matter were you live and making the results between countries comparable. It can’t be how many species you see as the diversity is much higher in eg. Kenya than Denmark. Making […]

1. Another Thomasomys described: T. antoniobracki from N Peru (4.89429S 79.36761W). The link for downloading the PDF. 2. Bullimus carletoni described from S Luzon. 3. Three new species of Neacomys described from Amazonia: N. aletheia (split from N. minutus) lives between Ucayali and Jurua; N. elieceri (sister to N. vossi) between Madeira and Tapajos, and N. jau (sister to N. […]

On October 1st, 2021, a friend of mine (Stratton Hatfield) and I commenced a mammal big day across the Mara-Loita-Nguruman landscape of Southern Kenya, covering roughly 100 Nautical Miles (1 ‘minute’ of latitute).  Our primary purpose was to showcase the immense diversity this region has to offer and to try to shed light on some of the conservation challenges this […]

In the latest podcast episode, Charles Foley and I interview Tomer Ben-Yehuda and Alex Meyer, two 30-something mammalwatching friends about their adventures and misadventures around the world. We cover the full spectrum of mammalwatching emotions: the thrill of seeing a White-bellied Pangolin in the Central African Republic; the blissful relief of a last minute Maned Wolf sighting in Brazil, and the agony […]

Here is a great report from Ian Thompson. Be sure also to check out his and Tracey’s photos: some seriously good species. Ian Thompson: Bolivia, October 2021 The genesis of this trip was a conversation that Rob Foster and I had last November but due to the countless vagaries of travel during the pandemic didn’t actually happen until September – […]

Cat fans rejoice – here is an exciting new tour from Royle Safaris Mainland Clouded Leopard, Nepal: March 9 – 18 2022 After travel to the region, you will have 7 nights in the park to explore the forest both during the day and with some night time activities, looking for as much wildlife as possible. The target of course […]

Here’s a new Costa Rica report. Great to see more and more people traveling again. Costa Rica, 2021: Jan Ebr, 2 weeks & 19 species including a Paca, Central American Dwarf (Alfaro’s Pygmy) Squirrel and a Central American Red Brocket Deer. Jon

Here’s a really great report from Jon Swenson of a trip he took guided by The Legendary Jose Gabriel Martinez Southern Arizona, 2021: Jon Swenson, 6 days & 50 species including Southern Pocket Gopher, 3 skunk species, Coati, Ringtail and Mexican Woodrat. jon

Hi everybody I’m going on a buisness trip to Texas from March 1st to 7th 2022 along with my boss. We’re going to check out different nature areas originally with a focus on birds. But I would like to add some good mammals to our trip as i want to convince him to focus on them as well. We’re arriving […]

My 6 day trip to Western sahara. I flew on the 20th October 2021. A straightforward flight, from Gatwick, via casablanca to dakhla. The only issue being landing in casablanca to find that our flight home had even cancelled due to covid rules being suddenly changed by the Moroccan government. Not exactly ideal. Post covid, dakhlas windsurfing Community is alive […]

1. True’s beaked whales from the Southern Hemisphere split as a new species, Mesoplodon eueu. 2. When pygmy marmosets got split, it was unclear which of the two species should keep the old name because it was unknown which one was represented by the original holotype. Now we know that the northern species should be called Cebuella pygmaea and the […]

Hi Everyone! I’ve been entertaining this question in my own head, and was wondering what everyone else thinks: So back when I started mammal watching (2007ish), seeing a list of 20-30 mammals anywhere was spectacular, and 50 was almost unimaginable. But obviously, with today’s knowledge, increasing accessibility to ecosystems at night (in most countries), improving guiding services and of course […]