A very smart honey badger.

Stoffle is a captive Honey badger in South-Africa’s Moholoholo Rehabilitation centre that shows incredible intelligence in getting out of his enclosure. He started by climbing trees and lets bending tree branches drop him outside (Keepers removed the trees), then he puts his feeding can vertically to climb out (Keepers changed it), he collects stones to [...]

Sri Lanka Trip Report

Phil Telfer sent me a great trip report from Sri Lanka with 34 mammals including Fishing and Rusty Spotted Cats and a Golden Palm Civet.
http://mammalwatching.com/Oriental/orientsrilanka.html
Happy Holidays - I hope you are spending them somewhere more interesting than I am
 
cheers
 
Jon

Assam Trip Report

After Bhutan I spent a few days in Assam.  A trip report is here http://mammalwatching.com/Oriental/orientindiaassam2008.html
Nothing too exciting but Hoolock Gibbons and Wild Water Buffalo were pretty cool
 
Jon

Bhutan Trip Report

2 weeks ago I was in Bhutan.  Its a wonderful place and the mammal watching was good and included a Golden Cat.
 
A trip report is  here http://mammalwatching.com/Oriental/orientbhutan.html
 
Jon

IUCN Redlist Website

Many of you will already know this site.  But I only recently discovered it – the IUCN Redlist website is a fabulous resource with detailed range and other information on every species, including recent taxonomic changes.

New Tonkin Snub-nosed Monkey population

New Population Of Extremely Rare Snub-Nosed Monkey Discovered (December 5, 2008) — A new population of the extremely rare Tonkin snub-nosed monkey, so-called because of its unusual and distinctive up-turned nose, has recently been discovered in a remote forested area of northern Vietnam. … > full story
I saw this species in China… they are beautiful