The Weekly Recap
Hello and welcome back to the weekly recap!
The first trip report this week was the second of the Royle Safaris trips to Western Sahara earlier this year, following from part 1 last week. They got good views of all their cat & canid targets, including species like Sand Cat, African Golden Wolf and African Wild Cat, and some other rarities such as Desert Hedgehog, Lesser Egyptian Jerboa and Pygmy Gerbil.
Next up is Klil Zaitlin’s trip to Brazil, full of 30 species with highlights like Maned Wolf, Ocelot, Jaguar and some very scenic photos.
He has also shared a report from Costa Rica: another 18 species including Tapir, Olingo and Three-toed Sloth.
Jannico Kelk’s gorgeous report from Sulawesi and the Molucca Islands is mainly full of incredible bat pictures (species like Sulawesi Naked-backed Fruit Bats, Peleng Leaf-nosed Bat and Lesser False Vampire Bats), but also reptiles, birds, insects and, I suppose, some more (non-winged) mammals.
The last report was Harry Scott’s from Singapore, a first-time poster! It sounded like a great trip, with mammal highlights like Dog-faced Fruit Bat, Sunda Colugo and Asian Palm Civet.
If you’d like to join a mammal trip, Mammalia is launching a new tour to Yunnan led by Ian Thompson and Yiqian Wu. It’s scheduled for late October of next year and some targets will be Yunnan Snub-nosed Monkey, Dwarf Blue Sheep, and Skywalker Gibbon.
Royle Safaris are also heading to China for a 3 week tour at the end of 2028, searching for species like Yangtze Finless Porpoise, Francois Langur and also the Skywalker Gibbon.
And Next Continent have announced 2 mammal trips to Vietnam happening next year. One of them is specifically designed for serious primate photographers (and no, before my dad says anything, unflattering pictures of your children don’t count) whereas the other is more of a classic mammal trip for listers. Targets will include Douc Langurs, Slow Lorises, Pangolins and, of course, bats.
The newest episode of the Mammalwatching Podcast is out! All about African mole-rats — mammals even I like — it is an interview with Kyle Finn, one of the world leading experts on them. I haven’t had a chance to listen yet but it sounds like a good one:)
Kyle Finn has also shared an interesting post about a mysterious Liberian genet: there is a possibility of it being a King Genet, one of the Lost Species…
And finally, thermal master DV2 heat scope is on sale for only $400 this week on Amazon! Make sure to use the code MAMMALCAM10 for the discount, and check out this post if you want to read a review of it first.
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Thanks for reading:)
Katy
Cover photo: Tatar Horseshoe Bat – Jannico Kelk
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