The Weekly Recap
Hello and welcome back to the weekly recap!
The week started off with a trip report from Phunchok Tsering, leading an Exotic Travel Ladakh (India) trip in October of last year. With many great species like Brown Bear, Snow Leopard, and Eurasian Lynx, they did very well for 3 weeks.
Next was Cory Cravatta’s “cautionary tale” about visiting Sabah, Borneo during monsoon season. It’s a really entertaining report to read: highlights include a Western Tarsier, Otter Civet, Bornean Orangutans (of which he had an amazing sighting) and various monsoon-induced tumbles revealing the meaning of the title. Not quite Jon Hall tumble level, but that is an unrealistic expectation to have.
This short report from Alligator River NWR, North Carolina includes many Black Bears, Deer, Wolves and a Nutria.
Royle Safaris have shared the report from their trip to Vietnam in April. With 29 mammal species it was a big success – some highlights are Pygmy Slow Loris, Red-shanked Douc, Hatinh Langur and Javan Mongoose.
The final trip report was by Andrew Allport, about his use of thermal cameras to find Polar Bears in Svalbard – they are definitely not invisible to them, like some rumours say. Check out the post to read more details about how he used them!
Enigmatic Wildlife are running a trip to Madagascar in November of next year, where they’ll be looking for not only cool mammals but other charismatic species of birds, chameleons, geckos, snakes, etc. Check out the post for more details (and a picture of the world’s tiniest chameleon).
Yonathan Perez will be travelling to Rio de Janeiro at the end of the year and is wondering how he could turn the holiday into a mammal trip (I know who’d have some good advice on that…), so any suggestions in the area are welcome!
Dalton Van Leeuwen, visiting Western Australia in January, is trying to choose between Dryandra or Tone-Perup Nature Reserves. It is primarily for Numbats but he also is considering which would have the best chance for other species too, so give him some advice here.
And finally, a new identification guide to Duikers (and other forest antelopes) has been published by the IUCN SSC Antelope Specialist Group, and is available here for free!
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Thanks for reading:)
Katy
Cover photo: Pretend this is a mammal – Enigmatic Wildlife
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