ID of common dolphins
Hey all. In the 1990s Common Dolphin was split into long-beaked and short-beaked forms and counted as two different species. Currently they are lumped. According to Bernardo Alps (
Which sight records are reportable?
Recently I spent a few days on Java and saw a bunch of mammals, including two sightings of what I IDed as being very rare and little-know species (more on this below). Before submi
Help with IDing some rodent species from Kenya
Hey everyone! After 2 weeks in Uganda with Tomer Ben-Yehuda, I went to Kenya with Sandra Heldstab. We saw some great species over our 9 days there, but before publishing the trip r
Indian Mongoose and Mouse identification help please
Hi All I confess that birds have been my main interest, but recent trips have become more mammal-orientated (including India in March 2020, with 17 species identified – IR
Two bats to ID, New Guinea region
I hope somebody can help to identify these two bats. The microbat was at Nimbokrang, West New Guinea, roosing in a crack of a wooden tower in lowland rainforest. The flying fox was
Rat ID, southern Thailand (slightly gruesome pics)
Hi all I’m after thoughts on this splatted rat from near Khao Lak. Based on size and other features I identified it as Greater Bandicoot Rat (Bandicota indica) in the field (
A Genet Question from Dzanga Bai
Hi everyone! I have a question to anyone who might be an “expert” in genets, and specifically to Vladimir Dinets, who actually saw what was most likely the same individ
It’s your favorite game: Name That Species
See? You liked the title.. and who doesn’t like to help a fellow mammal watcher identify species So here are a few species I saw in South Africa that I would like to ID befor
Weasel Identification Help
I saw this little guy in 2006, before I was really deeply into wildlife watching. I saw it at the Calgary Zoo, in Alberta, Canada. It was running through the portion of the zoo loc
ID help wanted with Mexican mammals
Hi all. I wonder if anyone out there can help me identify some mammals (mostly squirrels) I saw on a a birding trip to western Mexico in 1999. The volume of “Mammals of the N