Dominique Brugiere was back in beautiful Oman over Christmas, where the mammal watching gets better and better.
Oman, 2020: Dominique Brugiere, 1 month & some nice species including Caracal, Striped Hyena, Honey Badger, Arabian Tahr and Blanford’s Fox.
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Ethiopia, 2012: Romain Bocquier, 10 days & 32 species including Clawless Otter, Salt’s Dikdik and Ethiopian Wolf. Jon
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Really interesting to me as we were there at the same time, with vastly different results … We did not see the Blanford’s Fox at the respective site, neither have we seen any Honey Badgers or Caracals, any Gerbils, ANY cetaceans – or Tahrs for that matter (but we did not talk to any locals for information, which seems to be a requirement). So our list would be Red Fox, Wolf, Striped Hyena, Arabian Jird, Arabian Gazelle, Common Genet, Small Mouse-tailed Bat and that’s it. Yes, we have spent only two weeks there and gave a lot of time to birding, but it still shows how terribly we such at mammalwatching 🙂
Nevertheless, one of the most intriguing things to me in this report is the brief mention of the White-tailed Mongoose – this is a species that should occur there but I don’t think any report ever mentions it. Now the mystery of whether it occurs or not seems to be solved.