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November 2016

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29 November 2016
North American
whalewatching

New Jersey pelagics

Last Friday I went on a 12-hour pelagic from Cape May. It was a beautiful, smooth ride, but the only mammals seen were two minkes and a very shy pod of offshore bottlenose dolphins

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27 November 2016
North American
kangaroo ratspocket miceSouthern California

RFI: Southern California rodents

Hi all, I’ll be in Southern California towards the end of December and am planning on looking for some of the local Heteromyids. I understand the timing (of year) is not opti

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27 November 2016
Africa
CrociduraEthiopiashrews

New shrew species from Ethiopia

Two new shrews. have just been described from Ethiopia. Crocidura afeworkbekelei occurs on Sanetti Plateau, while C. yaldeni is apparently endemic to Beletta Forest near Jimma. L

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25 November 2016
Africa
Kenya

New Trip Report, Kenya

Here’s a new report from Steve Morgan. Kenya, 2016: Steve Morgan, 2 weeks and 64 species, including Aardvark, Caracal, Zorilla, Striped Hyena and Hirola. Jon

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23 November 2016
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Various Trip Reports – India, Nepal and Yellowstone – Royle Safaris

Tiger Safari to Bandhavgarh Trip Report – Royle Safaris A trip report from a tiger safari of Bandhavgarh National Park in India, with sightings of 4 different Tigers througho

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23 November 2016
Africa

South Africa’s Mammals

Hi everyone! I’m a mammalwatcher from South Africa and I’ve seen most of the common mammals in South Africa but there’s a few species I’m struggling to find

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22 November 2016
Australasia
Australia

New Trip Report: Australia

Dominque Brugiere is back from 2 months in Australia where he saw some nice mammals and discovered a few new sites (well I think they are new at least) for some of the macropods i

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19 November 2016
Uncategorised
batspikastaxonomy

New species

Two new papers of interest: (1) splitting trident-nosed bat into 3 spp., one of them completely new; (2) claiming multiple new spp. among Chinese pikas. I find the first one prett

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18 November 2016
Uncategorised

HMW Vol. 6 review, part 2.

So, here is another list of noticeable things in HMW vol. 6, including all differences with IUCN Red List taxonomy. Let me know if you need more details on any of them. The two ssp

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18 November 2016
Europe and the Palearctic
Russia

New Trip Report: The Sea of Okhotsk

Here’s a report from an exciting destination, especially if you are a pinniped fan! Sea of Okhtosk, 2016: Cheryl Antonucci, 12 days & 12 species including Northern Fur Se

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