Book Review: Marine Mammals (of southern Africa and the Southern Ocean)
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 St
Oman Trip Report, December 2021
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, a
United Arab Emirates for Tahr and Gazelle, December 2021
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
Advertising: Northern Chad Expedition, March 2022
Pictus Safaris are running an exciting trip to the “Soul of the Sahara” – the Ennedi and Ouadi-Rime Faunal Reserve in Chad, from March 14 – 26, 2022. Some o
New Trip Reports: Kenya
Seems like Kenya is the new hot mammalwatching destination. Here are two more very recent reports. Kenya, October 2021: Andreas Jonsson, 12 days & 58 species including Hirola,
New Trip Report: Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, 2021
A new trip report from Pictus Safaris featuring all sorts of goodies, including the first Kipunji in a trip report on this site. Mozambique, Tanzania and Kenya, 2021: Pictus Safari
Western sahara
My 6 day trip to Western sahara. I flew on the 20th October 2021. A straightforward flight, from Gatwick, via casablanca to dakhla. The only issue being landing in casablanca to fi
Uganda, 2021
For many years Uganda had been fairly high on my list of places to visit, but never quite high enough for me to start thinking seriously about a trip. I’d heard only good thi
The best of mammalwatching
A new paper in African Journal of Ecology. Sounds like an unparalleled mammalwatching experience.
Kenya, 2021
COVID and Wuhan. Ebola and the DRC. Kenya and mammals. Kenya is the epicenter of my mammalwatching virus. I grew up in the UK in the 1970s watching nature documentaries filmed in K