The Weekly Recap
Hello and welcome back to the weekly recap! This recap is a special one for two reasons (and no, neither of those is that I’m going to be replaced with ChatGPT, but a girl can dream). The first reason is that today marks the 100th weekly recap! 100 weeks I shall never forget – which is strange, because the brain usually erases trauma.
The second reason is that last Saturday was my 21st birthday. My dad (still Jon Hall, unfortunately) was the last mammal I expected to see jumping on a bouncy castle in my friends’ garden (the bouncy castle itself being almost as unexpected), especially as he was accompanied by my mother who I had just had a dramatic goodbye with. It was a lovely surprise, but I’m not sure what’s worse to imagine: him having been alone with my friends for the past hour and what he might have said to them, or the fact that he was proudly sporting his new “mammalwatching is brat” cap. Actually, maybe it’s the fact he had gotten matching caps made for a couple of my friends and me… Don’t let the photo fool you, I was threatened with another 100 recaps if I didn’t put mine on. My poor brainwashed friends, however, did so willingly.
Anyway, this week was another quiet one, with only two trip reports – the first of which was Martin Parry’s, from a trip to 1StopBorneo’s Beluran Safari Camps in Sabah. They found some great species including a Marble Cat, Moonrat, Stink Badger and a Malayan Flying Fox looking frighteningly like Dracula.
The second trip report is from Mike Richardon’s trip to Central Kenya back in February. With 69 species, the highlights were Mountain Bongo, Maned Rat, Naked Mole-rat and Harrison’s Giant Mastiff Bat and a bunch of great photos.
If you’d like to join your own trip, the Amazon Primates and Parrots cruise happening next May with WildWings is discounted until June 30th, so now is the best time to check it out if you’re interested. Otherwise, head to the join a trip page for other ideas.
A new episode of the Mammalwatching Podcast came out a few days ago! Charles and my dad talk to Rachel Ashegbofe, the founder of the SW/Niger Delta Conservation project. It was very interesting to hear how she accidentally found herself working in conservation despite all of the roadblocks.
If this newsletter isn’t good enough for you (😢), Royle Safaris have posted one highlighting the top mammals they’ve seen this year and advertising future trips.
Finally, there have been two posts reviewing thermal scopes this week. This one is Wei Li from 1StopBorneo Wildlife’s comparison of the Xinfrared T2S Plus and the HT-06, and this one is a helpful buyer’s guide to thermal scopes in general.
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Thanks for reading:)
Katy
Cover photo: “Mammalwatchers are brats”, or something like that
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