Computers Show How Bats Classify Plants According To Their Echoes
Computers Show How Bats Classify Plants According To Their Echoes (March 24, 2008) — Researchers have developed a computer algorithm that can imitate the bat’s ability
Saiga Antelopes Face Migration Crisis
Asia’s Odd-ball Antelope Faces Migration Crisis ScienceDaily (Mar. 19, 2008) — Take a deer’s body, attach a camel’s head and add a Jimmy Durante nose, and you h
Wolverine photographed in California
This is exciting, particular for anyone who thinks – like me – that the Wolverine is one of the world’s greatest mammals. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200
First photos of Lowland Gorillas mating face to face
This is pretty interesting… Scientists have released the first known photographs of gorillas performing face-to-face copulation in the wild. This is the first time that weste
Lion Warning
I used to have this stuck to my office wall but lost it. Thanks to Richard Webb for sending it through as a JPG file.
Ethiopia – Simien Mountains Trip Report
I’ve just added a report of last weekend in the Simien Mountains. Lots of Ibex, Geladas and some yet to be identified rodents. Jon
Costa Rica trip report
During a bird-watching trip to Costa Rica in December 2007, I also focused on diurnal mammals and managed to photograph all but one species found. These included 3 monkeys, 3 squir
New species of Elephant Shrew?
This is an interesting article from the BBC in which camera trap images appear to show a new species of Giant Elephant Shrew from Tanzania’s Udzungwa Mountains
Ethiopia, 2008 Trip Report
The Simien Mountains are a quite remote and scenically stunning national park in northern Ethiopia. They are home to good numbers of Gelada Baboons, a few Ethiopian Wolves and the
Not One but Six Giraffe Species Geneticists Say (maybe)…
This is quite interesting though I think the jury is still be firmly out on whether there are in fact more than one species of Giraffe http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/715