Owyhee Backcountry Byway
After making a special trip to see pygmy rabbits earlier this year, this fall I finally saw one in Idaho, excellent views of one off the Owyhee Backcountry Byway. This road is exce
New Trip Report – Brazil’s Emas National Park
Richard Webb was in Brazil last month and had a great trip. Emas, 2014: Richard Webb, 8 days & 19 species including a Giant Armadillo, Maned Wolf and Hoary Foxes. Jon
Giant Otters making a comeback in one Peruvian River
A nice article, with some great pictures, on a superb species. This highly intelligent, deeply social, and simply charming freshwater predator almost vanished entirely due to a rel
Monkey Selfie Sparks Copyright Case
This is a couple of months old but if you haven’t read this then it is an interesting – and somewhat comical – story (though I suspect the photographer – or
Shrinking goats, shrinking forests and expanding Saki species. Some mammals in the news
Here are a few recent mammal articles that you might find interesting… Alpine goats shrinking due to global warming. Climate change is causing Alpine goats in the Italian Alp
New Trip Reports: Australia & Tibet
Three new reports on mammalwatching.com Queensland and Tasmania, 2014: Romain Boquier, a lits of 63 species seen over 6 weeks including Proserpine Rock Wallaby, Bennet’s Tree
And some taxonomy…
Some taxonomy news: North American Water Shrew is a complex of three species (fortunately, I’ve seen all three); here’s a taxonomic review of Asian pikas. Vladimir Di
Winter chipmunks
If you go chipmunking in the Sierra Nevada, better do so in summer. By late October the chipmunks change into winter coats and become even more difficult to tell apart than in summ
Golden beavers
If you’d like to see the golden subspecies of American beaver (Castor canadensis subauratus), there is an amazingly tame population in downtown Martinez, California. Just par
Ladakh, 2014
Snow Leopards are one of the most enigmatic of all animals. For me, like for many of us, they symbolise the truest of true wilderness. Their rarity, beauty and downright coolness m