Mammal Watching Forum

Hello everyone, I am planning to go on a trip to Brazil this year. I know it is quite short notice but wanted try anyways. Are there any people interested in maybe travelling together for a week or so? Main targets for me are the lion tamarins. But probably will be traveling the South east of Brazil. Might try to […]

Royle Safaris are running a 10 night tour to Nepal’s Chitwan National Park from May 1 – 11th this year. You will be searching for Tigers, Sloth Bears, Leopards, One-horned Rhinos and features all day jeep safaris to get deep into Chitwan and as well as full day hikes where tiger tracking and encountering rhinos on foot is all part […]

Good to see so many trip reports coming in again. Here is a new report from Romain Bocquier Sri Lanka, 2021: Romain Bocquier, 10 days & 43 species including Rusty-spotted and Fishing Cats, Sloth Bear, three civet species and much more. Jon

Ian Thompson had an adventure in troubled Ethiopia at the end of 2021. While he was mammalwatching, his binoculars auditioned for the starring role in the remake of The Terminal. A very entertaining report with some good mammals too. Ethiopia, 2021: Ian Thompson, 3 weeks & 61 species including Bale Monkey, Aardvark and Cheetah. Jon

I have just uploaded an updated global mammal checklist (here). The first update in 12 months. The checklist began life as something primarily based on the IUCN Red List. But the Red List taxonomy is sometimes quite out of date for some groups of species, so I am moved to using the American Society of Mammalogists’ (ASM)  Mammal Diversity Database (MDD) as […]

A fascinating report from Mark Spence who went in search of the lovely looking Natuna Langur last year. Natuna Islands, 2021: Mark Spence, 1 week with mammals including Natuna Langur, Small-toothed Palm Civet, Slow Loris and a strange looking Giant Squirrel. Jon

On New Year’s Eve 2021, Ellesmere and Sierra (Charles’s gifted children) sat down with my disappointing offspring –  Patrick and Katy – to reflect on the highs and lows of growing up in a mammalwatching world. Ellesmere reveals the real reason to visit the Louvre, and Patrick gives tips on how to stare down a Tassie Devil. Sierra has an […]

Here is a new report on Ghana. Great to see more and more people combining serious birding with serious mammaling (they also racked up over 400 bird species). Ghana, 2021: Daan Drukker, 2 weeks & 41 species including Common Cusimanse, Gambian Mongoose, Pardine Genet, Pel’s Anomalure and Patas Monkey. jon  

The final mammalwatching podcast episode of 2021 – released just hours before the end of the year – featured the remarkable Bob Pitman, whalewatcher extraordinaire. I thought I was doing pretty well with my 50 something cetacean list. And then we talked to Bob. This man has seen 86 different whale and dolphin species in the wild…. 86!! He has […]

Here an incredible video, northern Norway 2017: a Wolverine killing a Reindeer in blizzard.     And I spent three nights in a hide just few meters from Wolverines, armed only with a pair of binoculars! 😀  

1. A new paper argues that red mazama deer south of the Amazon should be considered a separate species Mazama rufa rather than M. americana. 2. Myotis keaysi from coastal Ecuador split (open-access) as M. moratellii. Apparently this is the species that used to roost in public bathrooms at Cerro Blanco back in 1995. No idea if they are still […]

Sweetwater Wetlands is a small urban park off of I-10 in central Tucson. As of January 2022, four different bobcats have overlapping ranges here. Winter seems best; sighting success is between 50-75%. In summer that drops to more like 10%, though there are Arizona cotton rats then, round-tailed ground squirrels, and things like vermilion flycatchers and dragonflies. Birding is good […]

A new report of a successful trip from Cheryl Antonucci who continues to check off the world’s primates at an impressive pace. Eastern Brazil, 2021: Cheryl Antonucci, 19 days & 34 species including Black and Golden-headed Lion Tamarins, Yellow-breasted and Blond Capuchins and Uta Hick’s Bearded Sakis.   Jon  

Here is Jens Bokelaar’s first report for mammalwatching. A detailed report on a long trip through Chile that has a stack of useful information and some great mammals. Chile 2020: Jens Bokelaar,  63 days & 38 species including Monito del Monte, Large Hairy Armadillo, Southern Pudu and Bennet’s Chinchilla Rat. Jon

Chris and Mathilde Stuart’s latest book is a pocket guide to the almost 50 species of  whales, dolphins and seals you might encounter off of southern Africa. Like all the Stuarts’ books, this one has obviously been designed and written by mammalwatcher (for those who don’t know them, the Stuarts have been involved in wildlife research and book writing for over […]

Can anyone tell me which species this is ?

Trip report for December 2021, Sultanate of Oman, Charles Hood and Mike Richardson, with information on Blanford’s Fox, Muscat Mouse-tailed Bat, Wolf, a short pelagic trip, and Indian Ocean Humpbacked Dolphin. As with the UAE report I posted yesterday, this opens with notes on travel in the times of covid regimes and also has hire car info, then has sites, […]

Short update on UAE as of Dec 2021, Charles Hood and Mike Richardson, site info on Arabian Tahr and Arabian Desert Gazelle, at this link here

The latest mammalwatching podcast is now up, in which we interview Vivek Menon founder and Executive Director of the Wildlife Trust of India. Vivek is a distinguished conservationist, scientist and author of the Field Guide to Indian Mammals (required reading for any mammalwatcher heading to the sub-continent). During more than 30 years of conservation work Vivek has had many adventures around the […]

Saw this on LinkedIn. That is a lot of elk! https://www.linkedin.com/posts/eric-r-robinson-08051645_my-brother-todd-robinson-came-across-this-ugcPost-6877290837374574592-V0wA