The Natural World Mammals

Mammal watching on holiday is a great way to pass the time in a relaxing and fun way, or you could go whole hog and book a specialist tour. If you are on a group tour remember they have come to see “something” else so move on when they do, and yes we have said this before.

Some Mammal Facts - There are over 5400 species of mammals on the planet - some of our most common friends are now critically at risk due to hunting and predation, loss of habitat and global warming and pressures from farming and livestock farmers, particularly where wild animals get into conflict by predating on domestic ones. An odd fact is that Wombats have cubed poo!

Difficult Mammals Shrews, Voles, mice - in general Rodentia and the like the mammal equivalent of the LBJ perhaps a LBJM - some such as Margays and Ocelots are just impossible - even if you had them side by side. Ones that might eat you are always a worry so difficult in the sense of it might be time to put the camera down and move on. Ones we struggle with are Bats - the mammal equivalent of Swifts and Swallows and they always seem to be hanging around in dark places - doesn’t make it easy.s

Resources Books on any natural subject look no further than the NHBS on line, if they haven't got it it then it probably doesn't exist. Our go to guide is the Lynx Mammals of the World Volumes one and two - not cheap but an essential back at the base guide. You are welcome to use or small museum library of research books. We also have some country specific field guides which are useful for local knowledge of what’s about.