Right Whale breaches onto Yacht
This story is doing the rounds today… the embedded video link is amusing too http://www.smh.com.au/environment/whale-watch/whale-leaps-from-water-crushes-yacht-mast-20100722-
Mammal watching in North Carolina
Hey folks Last May I hit up North Carolina for birding and Salamandering, but also saw a few interesting mammals, particulary pelagic species I had two trips with Patteson Pelagics
New study revises Finless Porpoise Taxonomy and Yangtze River Porpoise conservation
Here is a link to a BBC news story summarizing the paper http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8767000/8767968.stm Take home message is that: The Chinese and Indo-Pacifi
RFI: Crested Porcupine and other mammals, central Italy
Hi all In mid-October I will be spending a week in the Abruzzo National Park in the Apennine Mountains of western central Italy. I will also have a couple of days to explore Umbria
New Trip Reports: Taman Negara & Java
I was in SE Asia in June and July, and I spent a couple of nights in Taman Negara to (successfully) look for Tapirs A report is here I then went to Java for a few days and saw 21
Africa’s National Parks Hit by Mammal Declines
ScienceDaily (July 13, 2010) — African national parks like Masai Mara and the Serengeti have seen populations of large mammals decline by up to 59 per cent, according to a study
Trout & Voles
A pretty wild photo (by volunteer Ralph Stewart) from The Nature Conservancy’s Silver Creek Preserve. A few fish were killed during research there this summer to determine
Alaska Marmot trip
Hi all I will be in Alaska 8/11-8/19. My plan is to focus on Alaska Marmot and see as many other mammals as I can along the way, with a boat trip out of Seward if possible. As far
Wild Cat Found Mimicking Monkey Calls;
ScienceDaily (July 9, 2010) — In a fascinating example of vocal mimicry, researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and UFAM (Federal University of Amazonas) have d
Utah Prarie Dogs and the Channel Islands RFI and some news from the Asia-Pacific
A few people have sent me some trip reports over the last couple of weeks and I am sorry not to have uploaded them but I’ve been travelling through Malaysia, Indonesia and no