Trip Report: Wet Tropics, July 2017
This is the trip report of my 2 mammal watching days in the Wet Tropics, Queensland. Trip report PDF: Mammal watching Atherton 2017 SPECIES LIST: Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinu
ID help with squirrel at Bantimurung Waterfall, Makassar, Sulawesi, Indonesia
Dear All, On 17 June, I’ve did a half day short trip to Bantimurung Waterfall (part of Bantimurung-Bulusaraung National Park) near Makassar, Sulawesi, Indonesia. Besides sev
Borneo Trip Report
Sorry if this is a repeat for some. I originally posted it to the old blog. I have finally finished a long trip report for the two weeks we spent in Sabah in March and April. Des
New Trip Report: West Papua (and they even saw some mammals!)
I was very happy to get this report from Steve Anyon-Smith: his first in a while and his sense of humour is as sharp as ever. He was in West Papua with Dion Hobcraft last monthR
Bat Call ID – Daintree region, Queensland, Australia
Looking for an ID on a bat call which is commonly heard in the Daintree region (Queensland, Australia) at dusk & dawn. It seems to be a large microbat which hunts along roads a
Quiz time: what is the Siberian creature in this video?
http://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/get-out-of-my-puddle-angry-otter-attacks-tractor-in-funny-video This video show a creature that is clearly NOT an angry otter. My guess i
New Trip Report: Tasmania
A new report from Jimmy Lamb, just back from one of Australia’s top mammal destinations. Tasmania, 2017: Jimmy Lamb, 16 nights with species including Tiger and Eastern Quolls
Trip Report – Australia 2016
Finally got round to finishing a report for my trip to Australia from last year – five weeks of encompassing a bit of Queensland, Tasmania, south & west Victoria, and sou
New Guinea Highland Wild Dog Rediscovered
Interesting news from New Guinea, due in part to sightings by Tom Hewitt from Adventure Alternative Borneo. “For the first time in more than half a century, researchers have
Carrion-Eating Swamp Wallaby
My colleague James Fitzsimons recently published a paper documenting a swamp wallaby eating a seabird leg, the first recorded instance of carrion eating in this species. Here’