The Weekly Recap
Hello and welcome back to the weekly recap!
The past week has been quite a busy one for trip reports, but quite quiet for everything else. It started off with this one from the mythical South-West Papua by Hugh Lansdown. The report is full of gorgeous photos of mammals, birds, insects, reptiles and the jungle, with highlights including the Western Long-beaked Echidna, Striped Possum and Northern Common Cuscus.
Next was this Next Continent Tours trip through Vietnam, where they saw 25 mammal species including some “mega rarities” like Owston’s Civet, Southern White-cheeked Gibbon, and Northern Pygmy Slow Loris.
This 2 week trip to Tanzania got Romain Bocquier 16 species, from Blue Monkeys and Kipunji to Zanj Sun Squirrel and Ader’s Duiker.
Mark Hows spent 3 weeks in India and Nepal and saw a total of 29 species: Indian Rhinoceros, Red Panda, Bhutan Giant Flying Squirrel and Gangetic River Dolphin, to name a few. His report also includes a bunch of butterflies, herps, and ….birds…., so definitely check it out!
This 10 day Svalbard adventure from Andrew Allport sounds amazing, and the report is full of beautiful photos of Polar Bears, Arctic Foxes, Walruses and more.
Next is Tomer Ben-Yehuda’s trip to Bolivia in September, with 46 mammals like Ocelot, Goeldi’s Monkey, Pampas Cat and Chacoan Pecary, a very exciting Jaguarundi sighting, and many useful details. The least useful of which is a list of 266 bird sightings. Quite shameful, actually. I think any post mentioning more than 10 should be banned.
This report from Madagascar this summer by Enno Hankel includes 24 mammals: Eastern Woolly Lemur, Spotted Fanaloka and Silky Sifaka are just a few highlights.
And the final report was this brief one of Charles Hood’s trip to China, where he saw a Snow Leopard, Pallas’ Cat, Chinese Red Panda and Eurasian Lynx, among many others:)
As always, don’t forget to browse the join a trip page on the website to get some inspiration for your next mammal trip. I can personally recommend this trip to Antarctica in January 2027 – not because I’ll be there (although clearly that is a massive bonus), but because the more people I can get between my dad and me, the better.
Pieter de Groot Boersma saw some mysterious lemurs in Bermanevika, Madagascar which he would like some help identifying here.
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Thanks for reading:)
Katy
Cover photo: Ringed Seal in the clouds – Andrew Allport
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