New Population Of Highly Threatened Greater Bamboo Lemur Found In Madagascar (July 23, 2008) — Researchers in Madagascar have confirmed the existence of a population of greater bamboo lemurs more than 400 km from the only other place where the critically endangered species is known to live, raising hopes for its survival. … > full story
Archive for July, 2008
New Population of Greater Bamboo Lemurs found
July 25, 2008Chipmunk i.d. pages
July 21, 2008Some years ago I wrote a small i.d. page on chipmunks. This project is now updated and expanded over two pages, and has many new photos by me and Blake Matheson. It begins at
http://montereybay.com/creagrus/chipmunks.html
Don Roberson (Pacific Grove, CA, USA)
Nice Aardvark Pictures
July 20, 2008a href=”http://www.hardaker.co.za”>Trevor Hardaker sent me these two pictures a friend of his took a few days ago. The Aardvark was seen at lunchtime near Beaufort West in South Africa’s Karoo. I had heard (from Trevor) that they were often seen during the day in the winter time… and more evidence that the Karoo [...]
Mammal watching in Malaysia … A trip report from a local
July 20, 2008We have been living on the island of Penang, in Malaysia for about 18months. Although Penang boasts a population of 1.5M and has a thriving business and shopping district, many mammals are visible on the mountain hiking trails, the national parks and botanical gardens. Penang, Langkawi and Peninsular Malaysia are home to many kinds of monkeys: The Long Tail [...]
Many new mammals discovered in the Brazilian Amazon
July 19, 2008I was just sent a link to this site which is very interesting. Marc Van Roosmalen is a mammalogist who has spent 20 years in Brazil and discovered a heap of new species.
http://marcvanroosmalen.org/news.htm
Finland Trip Report
July 19, 2008I have just got back from a few days in Finland looking for Wolverines (successfully) and other stuff
A trip report is here
Jon
Over 100 species of bats found in a few acres of Ecuador Rainforest
July 19, 2008Over 100 Species Of Bats Found Within Several Acres Of Rainforest In Ecuador (July 16, 2008) — Bats are a remarkable evolutionary success story representing the second largest group of mammals, outnumbered only by rodents in number of species. Now, researchers have discovered the place that harbors the highest number of bat species ever recorded. [...]
Micronesia Trip Report
July 6, 2008I’ve uploaded the first trip report to my site for Micronesia from K. David Bishop – although the report is mainly birds he saw some nice bats too.
http://www.mammalwatching.com/Australasian/australasiamicronesia.html
Jon
Don Roberson – Pictures of Western Red Bat and Long-tailed Weasel
July 2, 2008 Don Roberson Says:
July 1, 2008 at 7:54 pm e
New pages with photo of rather rarely photographed California mammals are now on my website. Western Red Bat (marginal photos but cool story) at
http://montereybay.com/creagrus/westernredbat.html
and Long-tailed Weasel at
http://montereybay.com/creagrus/longtailedweasel.html
