Sydney
Dear All, I ‘ve just learned that I’ll be in Sydney for much of this week. I’ve been there before, but there’s still a lot of stuff I’d like to see. I
Mammals of Luzon
Here‘s a book that seems interesting. Has anybody seen it?
A good road for spotlighting near Cancun
Dear All, I had to spend a night in Cancun yesterday, so I rented a car (just $20!) and checked out the road to Chiquila (Hwy 5, signposted “Holbox” on the toll highway
pocket gophers
If you want to see two species of pocket gophers in one day, it is very easy right now in Upper Bidwell Park in Chico, California. Botta’s pocket gophers (left) are very acti
Mammals checklist
Here’s a list of world’s mammals I made for myself and currently use: http://dinets.info/mammlist.pdf Comments welcome.
Dog-jackal hybrids etc.
I know you were all disappointed that identifying Canis species in Western Palearctic proved to be so easy and straightforward. Well, here is something to spice it up. Now, a quest
February-March trips
An update on guided mammalwatching trips this winter: – The trips to Vietnam and Sichuan are re-scheduled to either next fall or next winter. I am now planning to run the Vi
Eulemur taxonomy
Here’s a new paper on Eulemur (brown lemur and relatives) evolutionary history. The authors weren’t interested in taxonomy, but their results show that the recently spl
Exploiting disaster victims
On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday there will be some of the highest tides of the year in San Francisco Bay, so I’m going to look for the northern ssp. of saltmarsh harvest
Elephant and beaked whale taxonomy
A new paper documenting broad hybridization zones between forest and savanna elephants: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.13472/abstract?campaign=woletoc On a separat