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Red-shanked Douc Langur at Danang (Vietnam), July 2024

Posted by Paul Carter

Paul Carter (paulcarter@pacapix.com)
Posted 2024 Oct 7. Latest minor additions: 2024 Oct 9.

SUMMARY
In July 2024 I saw Red-shanked Douc Langur (Pygathrix nemaeus) on the Son Tra Peninsula on three different days. The best views were in a restricted area with Tuan (a Danang-based guide) after he had shown me Grey-shanked Douc Langur near Nui Thanh in the morning. I later saw Red-shanked Douc Langurs at the Lady Buddha complex and in trees at the road edge about 1.5 km before the Ban Co Peak viewpoint. There were also Rhesus Macaque at the Lady Buddha temple complex.

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Grey-shanked Douc Langur near Nui Thanh (Vietnam), July 2024

Posted by Paul Carter

Paul Carter (paulcarter@pacapix.com)
Posted 2024 Oct 7. Last minor edits: 2024 Oct 12.

SUMMARY
As reported by Van Tuan et al (2019) there is a small population of rare Grey-shanked Douc Langur (Pygathrix cinerea) in a degraded forest area near the Tam My Thay commune (120 km southeast of Danang). Tuan (now a Danang-based guide) helps support the conservation of these langurs and he took me to the site on 20 July 2024 where we had great views for over an hour.

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Siberut Island (Sumatra, Indonesia) mammal records (2024)

Posted by Paul Carter

Paul Carter, posted 26 Sep 2024.
Minor edits on 10 Oct 2024 do not include any changes to species identification.

Summary
On a six-day visit (7-12 Sep 2024) with Ian Thompson to the Toloulaggo Village area on Siberut Island we saw 12 mammal species of which 11 were endemic to the Mentawai Islands, as well as another 4 species without confirmed identification. Highlights were: Golden-bellied Treeshrew, Kloss’s Gibbon, Siberut Langur, Mentawai Long-tailed Giant Rat and Siberut Flying Squirrel. We also saw what appears to be Sipora Flying Squirrel, noting that literature and databases do not include Siberut in range for this species.

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Sadiri Lodge (Bolivia): mammal records (2023)

Posted by Paul Carter

Paul Carter.
Posted 6 Sep 2024 (revisions probable: additional images and species).
Contact for ID queries/suggestions: paulcarter@pacapix.com

Summary
Sadiri Lodge is known as a birding destination with +400 bird species recorded. An online search showed walking trails on a forested ridge with mammal potential so I visited in June 2023 for four nights. I saw +17 mammal species at the lodge, including Western Amazonian Mouse Opossum, Ferreiras Spiny Tree Rat, Simon’s Spiny Rat and Vargas Llosa’s Bristly Mouse. We also saw fresh footprint of Bush Dog which Raul Navi (my lodge guide) has seen here before. In the nearby lowlands we also saw Madidi Tit Monkey.

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Cuc Phuong NP (Vietnam): mammal records

Posted by Paul Carter

Paul Carter
Posted 18 Aug 2024. Revised 19 Aug 2024; further revisions/additions likely. All images by PC.
For identification or taxonomy comments please contact me at: paulcarter@pacapix.com

Summary
On an overnight visit (27-28 July 2024) with Nick Cox and Le Khac Quyet we saw 15 species. The highlights were Ha Long Leaf-nosed Bat, Indochinese Shrewlike Mouse, Mekong White-bellied Rat and a Tube-nosed Bat species. My first visit to Cuc Phuong NP (19-20 Nov 2012) included Perny’s Long-nosed Squirrel.

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Streaked Dwarf Porcupine (Coendou ichillus) in the Iquitos area (northeastern Peru)

Posted by Paul Carter

Paul Carter. 8 July 2023.
Website: www.pacapix.com. Email: paulcarter@pacapix.com.
A citable version was posted on Zenodo here on 9 July 2023: DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8128848

Summary

On the nights of 20 and 23 June 2023 I photographed Streaked Dwarf Porcupine (Coendou ichillus, Voss and da Silva, 2001) in lowland forest 60 km south of Iquitos (Loreto, northeastern Peru), having found both with a thermal scope whilst in the company of Juan Pacaya (a guide from Tahuayo Lodge). These two records appear to be the first in situ records from northeastern Peru. C. ichillus is a poorly known porcupine confirmed from only nine sites (Ramírez-Chaves et al, 2020). One of the two sites in Peru is the Iquitos area in northeastern Peru where the only known specimen is a juvenile purchased by Pekka Soini in 1971 from a market near Iquitos and its collection point was never known (Voss and da Silva, 2001).

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Dead Humpback Whale off Steenbras River Mouth (False Bay, South Africa)

Posted by Paul Carter

First published 25 Nov 2022 3 PM; revised 26 Nov 2022 after the whale washed up at The Strand.

At 8.30 AM on 25 Nov 2022 I photographed from shore a dead Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) floating about 2-3 km offshore from Steenbras River Mouth (on Clarence Drive south of Gordon’s Bay). I later heard that it had washed up in front of the Indoor Swimming Pool at The Strand at around 3 PM the same day, so over about 6 hours it seems to have moved 9 to 10 km. On 26 Nov at 7 AM I went to The Strand and photographed it before its removal by city officials.

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Bali (Indonesia): mammal records (2004-2022)

Posted by Paul Carter

By Paul Carter; posted 5 Sep 2022.
This post summarises my mammal records and site information from various trips to Bali (Indonesia). These trips included a surf trip in 2004 (seeing dugong) and two months in 2015; most of the data below is from 2015.
CONTENTS: Mammal List, Site Data, References, Photos.

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Geoffroy’s Rousette Colony at Pura Goa Lawah (Bali, Indonesia), April 2015

Posted by Paul Carter

Paul Carter. Posted at pacapix.com on 1 Sep 2022

Pura Goa Lawah is home to a large colony of Geoffroy’s Rousette (Rousettus amplexicaudatus) that can be seen at the cave entrance; there were an estimated +1,000 bats roosting in the cave (29 April 2015); presumed to all be the same species.

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Dugong at Uluwatu Beach, Bali (Indonesia)

Posted by Paul Carter

Uluwatu Beach is a popular surf spot about 1.5 km north of Uluwatu Temple on the Bukit Peninsula (Bali). Whilst surfing here in January 2004 and waiting in the line-up (small surf, only about 3-foot) I saw the back of a Dugong (Dugong dugon) break the surface, about 15 meters away. An hour later when back on the cliff-top I looked down and had clear views of it feeding on the seagrass.

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