Right Whale breaches onto Yacht
This story is doing the rounds today… the embedded video link is amusing too http://www.smh.com.au/environment/whale-watch/whale-leaps-from-water-crushes-yacht-mast-20100722-
New Trip Reports: Taman Negara & Java
I was in SE Asia in June and July, and I spent a couple of nights in Taman Negara to (successfully) look for Tapirs A report is here I then went to Java for a few days and saw 21
Africa’s National Parks Hit by Mammal Declines
ScienceDaily (July 13, 2010) — African national parks like Masai Mara and the Serengeti have seen populations of large mammals decline by up to 59 per cent, according to a study
Wild Cat Found Mimicking Monkey Calls;
ScienceDaily (July 9, 2010) — In a fascinating example of vocal mimicry, researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and UFAM (Federal University of Amazonas) have d
Utah Prarie Dogs and the Channel Islands RFI and some news from the Asia-Pacific
A few people have sent me some trip reports over the last couple of weeks and I am sorry not to have uploaded them but I’ve been travelling through Malaysia, Indonesia and no
Taman Negara Revisited, 2010
In 2010 I was in Singapore for work, so I spent the weekend in Taman Negara on Peninsula Malaysia to try again for the Tapir that had eluded me in 2004. Time was of the essence, so
New Trip Report: British Columbia
Coke Smith sent me a great report from Knight’s Inlet, Johnstone Strait and Vancouver Island a few weeks ago. He saw 13 species including Vancouver Island Marmots (which I th
Maned Wolf video
Here is some nice video of the Maned Wolf at Caraca in Brazil from Lee Dingain’s blog http://leedingain.blogspot.com/2010/05/my-what-long-legs-youve-got.html
Aussie Bat Research 100 years behind…
A nice article on how little is known about the taxonomy of Australia’s bats … http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/journal/bat-taxonomy.htm
Gray Whale now off of Barcelona
A few weeks ago a Gray Whale was reported off of Israel. See here. What is presumably the same individual was recently seen just outside Barcelona Harbour. Incredible. One theory i