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August 2020

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30 August 2020
Africa
AfricaAfrican Striped WeaselPoecilogale albinuchaSouth Africa

Question about African Striped Weasel in Western Cape

So during this CO-VID 19 time, all you can do is fantasize about your next trip and read up about interesting species…. I read up on the African Striped weasel a bit (just be

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24 August 2020
Central and South America
Panama

New Trip Report: Panama

Here’s Steph Elliot’s first report on mammalwatching.com. Panama, 2019: Steph Elliot, 10 days & 26 species including Rothschild’s Porcupine, Rufous Tree Rat a

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21 August 2020
Africa
MadagascarMicrocebus jonahi

New species: Microcebus jonahi  – Jonah’s mouse lemur

I was told of this paper describing Microcebus jonahi  – Jonah’s mouse lemur Ecology and morphology of mouse lemurs (Microcebus spp.) in a hotspot of microendemism i

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21 August 2020
Oriental

New Trip Report: Assam

Here’s another just-before-COVID report. A bird list will follow I’m told (let me know if you want a copy emailed to you when it arrives). Assam, 2020: Cheryl Antonucci

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21 August 2020
Africa
bats

New bentwing from SE Africa

A new species, Miniopterus wilsoni, has been described from Mozambique and Malawi. The most accessible place to see it appears to be Zomba Plateau, where it is the only Miniopterus

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19 August 2020
North American
Crawford's Gray ShrewDesert Shrewtaxonomy

Split of Desert Shrew at the Colorado River

Here’s a split that makes sense. If you familiar with the split of wood rats into “West of the Colorado River” and “East of the Colorado River” units

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19 August 2020
Central and South America
Pampas CatSouth Americataxonomy

Pampas Cat Split (5 Species?)

In a March 2020 article in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, the authors provide a wide suite of evidence for splitting the pampas cat complex five ways. Whether you a

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18 August 2020
Uncategorised
DjiboutiIndia

Rarity news

Somali sengi is not endemic to Somalia, but occurs in Djibouti; the paper includes exact locations and shows that it should be in its own genus. Woolly flying squirrel recodred in

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18 August 2020
Central and South America
Chile

New Trip Report: Andean Mountain Cats in the Chilean Altiplano

Here’s an interesting report of a trip to the same – beautiful – area we visited in 2018 from Far South Expeditions. Andean Mountain Cat Recce, Arica & Parina

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15 August 2020
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Big Mammal DayTarangire

Tarangire Big Mammal Day

Here is a report that I’ve been meaning to post for some time about a Big Mammal Day that I carried out with my wife and some friends in the Tarangire ecosystem last year. It

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