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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A couple of recent books I’ve read that may be of interest to mammal watchers and naturalists: The Wolverine...
Happy new year everyone. I have a few reports to upload and will do so over the coming days....
Kenya Safari including the Mara, Tsavo (East and West) and Arabuko Sokoke National Parks – Royle Safaris A Kenya...
Some recent articles Altruistic Wild Dogs making a comeback The enigmatic pangolin, or scaly anteater, is literally being eaten...
And another two reports from Ian Loyd, Kenya, 2011: Ian Loyd, 1 week & 34 species including Leopard, Cheetah...
Some interesting articles about conservation this week, starting with Tom Friedman’s report on the IUCN’s Decennial “World Parks Congress”....
Zimbabwe, Botswana and Marrick (South Africa), 2018: Félix Serrano López, 2 weeks and about 60 species including Sable, Honey Badger,...
Here’s a great report and I was VERY happy to hear that Robert Nkator is still going strong, finding...
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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.