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December 2018

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22 December 2018
Gear ReviewUncategorised

Handbooks of the Mammals of the World Vol 8: the latest taxonomy (and a critique)

Here’s a note from Vladimir Dinets critiquing the taxonomy used by the latest volume (8) in the Handbook of the Mammals of the World series, as well as highlighting some of t

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22 December 2018
Oriental
Dicerorhinus sumatrensisSumatran RhinoSumatran Rhinoceros

There’s still some hope [fingers crossed emoji]

Tomer to Sumatran Rhino is like Kevin Spacey to young boys, well, minus the sex. So I guess it’s a very bad analogy then. But you get the point – I’m the number 1

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22 December 2018
Europe and the Palearctic
#westernsahara #smallmammaltrapping

Small mammal trapping in Morocco/West Sahara

The excellent recently posted report of a trip to Western Sahara emphasised the importance of measurements to correctly identify gerbils. Having nearly been arrested for small mamm

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