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Thinking of your next trip? Here are some mammal-focussed trips that are looking for people to join them. If you are planning a trip and looking for company, or looking to team
New (old) Trip Report: East Africa, 2013
Venkat Sankar recently sent through an interesting report from his 2013 trip in East Africa, where he looked for both small and large mammals. Kenya & Tanzania, 2013: Venkat S
Jon’s African life list
This list is based on my global mammalwatching checklist, available here. At January 27 2025 SENGIS (MACROSCELIDIDAE) (8/20)Eastern Rock Sengi (Elephantulus myurus) – endemic
Jon’s life list
The taxonomy of this list is based on my global mammalwatching checklist, available here. As at August 31 2025 PLATYPUSES (ORNITHORHYNCHIDAE) (1/1)Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatin
Rwanda
Rwanda is small, densely populated and slap bang in the middle of Africa. And my job sent me there in January 2007. The country, on the surface at least, appeared to be a lot more
Zambia
Having lived in Zambia in 1991, I am still in love with the country, the people and the bush. Mammals were pretty sparse over much of the place, but national parks like Northern Ka
Tanzania & Zanzibar
I've been to Tanzania 3 times. In 1991 I spent a couple of weeks in Tanzania. I couldn't afford to do much mammal watching at the time, though the train from Zambia was held up as
Central African Republic
I guess it was 2002 when I first heard about Dzanga Sangha National Park. I was having a beer with Steve Anyon-Smith in Sydney and he told me about a wildlife doco he had seen abou
Updates from Kruger…
In preperation for my upcoming trip to South Africa this fall, I started following the sightings reporting apps (at least 2 of them) and collecting some knowledge so that maybe som
New Trip Report: Tanzania
Another great report from Stefan Lithner Tanzania, 2015: Stefan Lithner, 19 days & 80 species including Servaline Genet, African Palm Civet, Southern Tree Hyrax, Demon Mole

