Pemba Flying Foxes Recovering
Critically Endangered Fruit Bat Make Dramatic Return From Brink Of Extinction (November 3, 2008) — A once critically endangered bat species, the ‘Pemba flying fox’
Massive Numbers Of Critically Endangered Western Lowland Gorillas Discovered In Republic Of Congo
(August 6, 2008) — The world’s population of critically endangered western lowland gorillas recently received a huge boost when the Wildlife Conservation Society releas
New Population of Greater Bamboo Lemurs found
New Population Of Highly Threatened Greater Bamboo Lemur Found In Madagascar (July 23, 2008) — Researchers in Madagascar have confirmed the existence of a population of great
Nice Aardvark Pictures
Trevor Hardaker sent me these two pictures a friend of his took a few days ago. The Aardvark was seen at lunchtime near Beaufort West in South Africa’s Karoo. I had heard (fr
First photos of Lowland Gorillas mating face to face
This is pretty interesting… Scientists have released the first known photographs of gorillas performing face-to-face copulation in the wild. This is the first time that weste
Lion Warning
I used to have this stuck to my office wall but lost it. Thanks to Richard Webb for sending it through as a JPG file.
Ethiopia – Simien Mountains Trip Report
I’ve just added a report of last weekend in the Simien Mountains. Lots of Ibex, Geladas and some yet to be identified rodents. Jon
New species of Elephant Shrew?
This is an interesting article from the BBC in which camera trap images appear to show a new species of Giant Elephant Shrew from Tanzania’s Udzungwa Mountains
Ethiopia, 2008 Trip Report
The Simien Mountains are a quite remote and scenically stunning national park in northern Ethiopia. They are home to good numbers of Gelada Baboons, a few Ethiopian Wolves and the
Not One but Six Giraffe Species Geneticists Say (maybe)…
This is quite interesting though I think the jury is still be firmly out on whether there are in fact more than one species of Giraffe http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/715