A new report from Brett Hartl.
Uganda, 2018: Brett Hartl, 19 days & 57 species including Chequered Elephant Shrew, Black-fronted Duiker and 13 species of primates. Plus a couple of unidentified rodents in photos if anyone can help…?
Jon
New Trip Report: Uganda
Related Articles
-
What species of Freetail Bats in Amboseli National Park (Kenya)
I got a message from Per Ole Syvertsen asking about freetail bats in Amboseli NP in Kenya … does anyone...
-
Need ID for a jackal from Ethiopia
Dear Mammal Watcher, Last November I probably saw a black-backed jackal Lupulella mesomelas in Awash NP in Ethiopia. I...
-
New Trip Report: Madagascar’s Enigmatic Wildlife
Here’s a new report from Topical Birding, who are increasingly getting into their mammals. Fabulous photos too. Madagascar, 2019:...
-
Aardvark in Zambia/ Zimbabwe
Hi I am planning tentatively a trip to Zambia Zimbabwe and Mozambique for October time Could anyone recommend anywhere ...
-
Best place to see bonobos
Hello, A quick introduction —I’m a friend of Tomer’s — we met by a freak coincidence after I met...
-
Kenya Trip Report
Hi all, I’ve uploaded a report from my very successful 3-week visit to Kenya in July: VS-Kenya-0721 This was an...
-
New Trip Report: Senegal
Richard Webb just got back from Senegal. He was mainly birding but did see some good mammals. Here’s the...
-
More on the Striped Bat caught in South Sudan
See the story here – it isn’t a new species but one last caught in 1939 http://news.mongabay.com/2013/0410-hance-bat-genus.html Jon
Excellent report!
I need to make it there soon 🙂
My semi-educated-guess for the terrestrial rodent would be an Arvicanthis sp – from memory A. niloticus (African Grass Rat) is the regular one in Uganda.
Not a clue for the arboreal one, but whatever it is I’d like to see one!
cheers, Mike
Yes I thought Arvicanthis too from my first glance. That tree rat does look very nice!
Im 90% sure the other one, in the tree, is the cricetomys emini – or in other words – The emins pouched rat. It has the clear distinction between the abdomen and the upper body. Also the “mask” is visible. Do you have any photos of the tail? The tip should be white and if so im 99% sure it is the emins pouched rat.
Hi Brett, how big was the rodent in the tree? Mouse sized, large rat sized? It looks too small to me to be a Cricetomys, which is a really large rodent, unless it happened to be a very young one.