Resources – Books

Brenard, H., and Brooke, M. (eds). 1994. Insight Guides: South East Asia Wildlife. Appa Publications, Hong Kong. Not much use as a field guide, but some good information on national parks in Thailand, Malaysia, Borneo, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines along with species you might see in each.

Francis, Charles M. 2001. A Photographic Guide to the Mammals of South East Asia. This is a pocket guide which covers most, but not all, of the larger mammals and a few of the smaller ones. Its quite useful though Francis’s 2008 Field Guide is much better. However, this is the only book I could find that deals with Java and Sumatra.

Francis, Charles M. 2008. A Field Guide to the Mammals of South East Asia. This is just a fabulous field guide and long overdue. The illustrations are brilliant, particularly for the bats. Indispensable for any trips to Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia. Unfortunately it does not cover Java and Sumatra, though his other (smaller) book does.

Resources – Websites

Ecology Asia maintains its niche in providing an easy introduction to the amazing diversity of Southeast Asia’s vertebrates. The website includes more than 800 factsheets, made easily accessible by a simple top-down menu system. And nice photos too, all taken in natural settings.

Southeast Asia Vertebrate Records is a short-note, peer-reviewed, online journal, launched on 1st January 2016 to publish records of interest. SEAVR’s area of interest comprises the 10 nation states of Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Philippines, Brunei, Indonesia and Timor-Leste.  Extralimitally, sighting records from Papua New Guinea (PNG) are also of interest.