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Banded Linsang
27 August 2025
Asia
OrientalThailand

Thailand

Thailand keeps getting better as a mammalwatching destination. There is a good network of national parks (though many can be very crowded), with some excellent mammals that seem to

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6 April 2025
Asia
OrientalVietnam

Vietnam

I visited Vietnam in 2011. The country has some fabulous mammals - primates in particular - but there is still a heartbreaking amount of poaching.

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6 January 2025
AsiaWorld’s Best Mammalwatching
ChinaOrientalPalearctic

China

I have been to China four times but I have barely scratched the surface.  The country is huge, of course, and hugely diverse. The mammalwatcing is fantastic in Sichuan and Qinghai

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28 April 2024
AsiaWorld’s Best Mammalwatching
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India

I have visited India six times. In June 1997 I spent a couple of weeks in Bandhavgarh, Kanha and Corbett National Parks. In February 2007 I spent a week in Gujurat, plus two days a

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10 October 2023
AsiaWorld’s Best Mammalwatching
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Borneo

This page covers both the Malaysian and Indonesian bits of Borneo, together with Brunei. I have visited Borneo five times and am sure I will return again and again. Per square kilo

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21 July 2023
Australasia
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Indonesia – West Papua, Raja Ampat & the Moluccas

I visited West Papua's Vogelkop's Peninsula and Waigeo Island in June 2023 for an incredible two weeks of mammalwatching with 60 species including Western Long-beaked Echidna plus

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8 May 2023
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Sri Lanka

Imagine if you could see more than half of every country's mammal species in a week .... what a wonderful world it would be. What a wonderful mammal list I would have. Well, in Sri

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Taiwanese Macaque Macaca cyclopis
16 August 2017
Asia
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Taiwan

I spent a week in Taiwan in August 2017. The country is not at all what I imagined: far more forest, mountains and mammals.I returned for two nights in July 2018. Dasyeushan Nation

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6 August 2016
Asia
OrientalSingapore

Singapore

I spent 24 hours in Singapore in 2022 on the way back from Borneo and saw 12 species of mammals around the city.

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6 August 2016
Asia
OrientalPakistan

Pakistan

In April 2011 I got the chance to visit Islamabad for work. My office had some concerns about my security. I had some concerns that I wouldn't be able to see any mammals. But where

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12 December 2025
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  2. Jon Hall on Patagonia & Buenos Aires Province, December 202518 January 2026
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  1. JanEbr on Patagonia & Buenos Aires Province, December 202518 January 2026

    Well then, that sounds interesting! I am literally still missing most of every small rodent from the coigue forests -…

  2. Jon Hall on Patagonia & Buenos Aires Province, December 202518 January 2026

    I am not sure. I didn't see many small mammals on Chiloe Island for instance, but its a different story…

  3. Jon Hall on Patagonia & Buenos Aires Province, December 202518 January 2026

    Sounds like an adventure. Glad you enjoyed the report - thanks!

  4. Jon Hall on Patagonia & Buenos Aires Province, December 202518 January 2026

    I missed them in Torres del Paine and on ashort trip to the Valdez Peninsula but don't think I was…

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13 January 2026
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12 January 2026
Vietnam and Cambodia 2023 (Cat Tien NP and Khum Chi Phat, Cardamom mountains)
12 January 2026
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11 January 2026
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