New mammal family web pages
[Posted on behalf of Don Roberson] I followed Jon Hall’s recommendation to spend the first months of the Covid-19 lockdown by entering all the mammals I’d seen in Scythebill, w
How do you use your thermal imager to find wildlife?
I know that quite a few of us now own thermal imagers and use them regularly while mammal watching. However, I think it’s fair to say that they are not always the easiest devices
BBC says Primate Watching Officially a Thing (and Russ Mittermeier sees all 80 Genera)
This will be a fun programme from the BBC I think I have seen 63 genera of primates, though I haven’t been all that focussed on them (at least until I started taking trips wi
Where to go when
Hi all I saw Jon’s post re lesser known mammal spots (my personal favourite is Pico, Azores – probably one of the best cetacean watching places on the planet)… Cu
Best Mammal Evolutionary Trees?
These mammaless days mean I finally have some time to improve the taxonomy of my global mammal checklist (with generous help from Don Roberson and others). At the moment it lists
Best Kept Mammalwatching Secrets … Revealed!
Thanks to those who shared ideas on places around the world where the mammalwatching is (probably) good but trip reports are scarce. I know most of us can only dream of travel at t
Assorted news
A few recent papers some people might find interesting: 1-2. A new water vole split in Western Iran. Also, the proper name for red-backed voles is again Clethrionomys rather than M
Join These African Wildlife Webinars
For most of us all travel is virtual right now, so why not join these webinar’s from the Leadership for Conservation in Africa for some vicarious mammalwatching. —̵
Taxonomy news
A couple taxonomy news: 1. Peromyscus mice are usually very easy to ID even in areas with many species present, so I’m sure nobody will be confused by yet another species bei
Best Kept Secrets
When we were in Colombia, Cheryl Antonucci and I were chatting about which mammalwatching destinations were under visited. Colombia was one example, although the reasons for that a