App Review: Stuarts’ Tracks & Scats of Southern Africa
The prodigious Chris and Mathilde Stuart have released another mammalwatching app, this time covering the tracks and scats of Southern African wildlife. The new mobile app is a han
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Ghana, February, 2023
Mammals seen incidentally during a birding trip around the country
New Podcast Episode: John & Terese Hart
In the lastest episode we talk to legendary mammalogists and conservationists John and Terese Hart about 50 years’ of work in the Congo rainforest. John and Terese have made an e
Status of Fat-tailed dwarf lemurs
I was recently browsing the Illustrated Checklist of the Mammals of the World (and I am glad I did not buy it) and was looking at lemurs specifically. It seems that in recent years
Kipunji and other primates in Southern Tanzania
This is a trip report of a self-organized trip to southern Tanzania. We hope that more people go this part of Tanzania as for mammalwatchers it far more interesting than the famous
Genet ID from Ghana
Can you help with ID of this Genet I have photographed in 2017 in Mole National Park, Ghana. I have ID it as Common Genet at that time but I am not sure know, in fact it looks more
Morocco in winter trip report
Here’s my second trip report from Morocco. My targets were the recently split Zenate myotis (the only new species for me) and the recently reintroduced Barbary stag, but I al
Roundup of a few 2022 Cat Trips
Here’s a summary of a few cat-focused trips that I did in 2022 including searches for Andean Mountain Cat (miss), Colocolo (miss), Kodkod (hit), Serval (miss, then a hit), Af
Track list for the Provisional Field Guide for the Squirrels of Western Africa
Download here the track list from the provisional field guide to the Squirrels and Anomalures of Western Africa. I advise to download the sounds before your trip in order to have t