Texas Ocelots
Here’s a great piece from Matt Miller on the first discovery in 20 years of an Ocelot den in Texas. Jon
New Trip Reports: Madagascar & Queensland (and a request for help IDing mouse lemurs)
Here is a list of species seen from Marie-Claude and Michel Gervais from their recent Madagascar trip. The report also includes several photos of different mouse lemurs in the ho
Attention South African Rodent Experts: Mystery Mouse from South Africa
Mike Richardson asked me to post the following pic of an animal he is trying to ID. He says “The mouse was captured in rocky habitat at Dunedin Farm near Beaufort West, Wes
New Trip Report, South Africa
Richard Webb has just returned (again) from South Africa after another great trip. South Africa, November 2016: Richard Webb (WildWings), 12 days & 56 species including Brown H
New Jersey pelagics
Last Friday I went on a 12-hour pelagic from Cape May. It was a beautiful, smooth ride, but the only mammals seen were two minkes and a very shy pod of offshore bottlenose dolphins
New shrew species from Ethiopia
Two new shrews. have just been described from Ethiopia. Crocidura afeworkbekelei occurs on Sanetti Plateau, while C. yaldeni is apparently endemic to Beletta Forest near Jimma. L
New Trip Report, Kenya
Here’s a new report from Steve Morgan. Kenya, 2016: Steve Morgan, 2 weeks and 64 species, including Aardvark, Caracal, Zorilla, Striped Hyena and Hirola. Jon
South Africa’s Mammals
Hi everyone! I’m a mammalwatcher from South Africa and I’ve seen most of the common mammals in South Africa but there’s a few species I’m struggling to find
New Trip Report: Australia
Dominque Brugiere is back from 2 months in Australia where he saw some nice mammals and discovered a few new sites (well I think they are new at least) for some of the macropods i
New species
Two new papers of interest: (1) splitting trident-nosed bat into 3 spp., one of them completely new; (2) claiming multiple new spp. among Chinese pikas. I find the first one prett