Book Review: Felids and Hyenas of the World, José R. Castelló (Princeton Field Guide)
José R. Castelló’s latest book has just arrived and it is every bit as good as I expected. The publishers claim it is “The most comprehensive and user-friendly photog
Rodent taxonomy news
A few updates for your checklists: 1. At least two, and maybe all three, species of enigmatic flying squirrels Biswamoyopterus are conspecific. 2. “Stenocephalemys sp. A̶
Book Review: Mammals of South Asia (Lynx Checklist)
Back in March I reviewed the first of the Lynx Illustrated Checklists, that covered the mammals of southern South America, Lynx have now released the second book covering Southern
Assorted news
A few news bits: 1. A review of Chiroderma bats. Compared to HBW/IUCN version, it considers vizottoi a subspecies of doriae, but splits scopaeum and gorgasi as full species. 2. How
Rarity news
Somali sengi is not endemic to Somalia, but occurs in Djibouti; the paper includes exact locations and shows that it should be in its own genus. Woolly flying squirrel recodred in
Tarangire Big Mammal Day
Here is a report that I’ve been meaning to post for some time about a Big Mammal Day that I carried out with my wife and some friends in the Tarangire ecosystem last year. It
Updated Mammalwatching Checklist @ August 2020
The latest version of my global mammal checklist is available here and also on Scythebill too. This update differs a little from previous ones. I focussed on improving the common
New species described
A couple new species descriptions: 1. A new Sorex shrew described from Honduras. The description is based on principal component analysis of just two available specimens; my unders
Mammal Watching Tours – Rwanda, Dominican Republic, Tanzania & Spain Available Summer 2020
Following up from our post on our Spanish tours running this summer we are happy to announce a further 3 countries which you can visit for mammal watching with Royle Safaris: 1) Do
Taxonomy news
A couple taxonomy papers: 1. A proposed overhaul of squirrel taxonomy, breaking Sciurus squirrels of the New World into a large number of genera and leaving only three Old World sp