Carnivores:
Ratel, Mellivora capensis Schreber 1776...
Posted on May 12, 2008 4:01 PM • 2 Comments
Two-month old black Jaguar cub born in captivity at the Huachipa zoo in Lima, Peru. (click for larger version) photo source: AP Photo/Martin Mejia/Scanpix hat-tip: Green Expander....
Posted on May 6, 2008 5:46 PM • 10 Comments
Burmese Ferret Badger, Melogale personata Saint-Hillaire 1831 Chinese Ferret Badger, Melogale moschata Gray 1831 There are two further putative species of ferret badger for which I’m unable to find suitable images: Everett’s ferret badger (Melogale everetti Thomas 1895) and...
Posted on May 5, 2008 3:00 PM • 1 Comments
Eurasian badger Meles meles L.Click for big version - they’re cute. Way cute...
Posted on April 28, 2008 10:39 PM • 5 Comments
Readers who saw my post yesterday about cat domestication may be interested to see that Greg Laden has posted on the paper. Greg’s view is that "[t]he conclusion the authors draw about cat origins is very weak ... but the...
Posted on February 1, 2008 12:28 PM • 2 Comments
A recently published study has used microsatelite markers to discover that domesticated cats originated in the Middle East, a finding that reinforces earlier archeological research. The abstract reads: The diaspora of the modern cat was traced with microsatellite markers...
Posted on January 31, 2008 10:55 PM • 0 Comments
By way of GrrlScientist, I notice that Fieldiana (the journal of the Field Museum is now freely available online. This means that DD Davis’ classic study "The giant panda: a morphological study of evolutionary mechanisms" of 1964 can now be...
Posted on January 25, 2008 7:29 PM • 1 Comments
I've written before about efforts to study and support jaguar populations here in the desert southwest and Mexico. So the following is saddening. Nature is reporting that: The US government will not attempt to save jaguars from extinction within the...
Posted on January 23, 2008 3:47 PM • 5 Comments
Sea otter, Enhydra lutris Linnaeus 1758 Mother with young. [picture source] And who can resist sea otters holding hands?...
Posted on January 21, 2008 8:05 AM • 0 Comments
African Clawless Otter, Aonyx capensis Schinz 1821 [source] [details]...
Posted on January 14, 2008 7:36 AM • 2 Comments
Last October I blogged about the reappearance of jaguars in southern Arizona and the possible effect of Bush’s border fence on the species recovery. While jaguars have been seen in Arizona, the closest breeding population is 125 miles south...
Posted on August 16, 2007 2:16 PM • 2 Comments
Take eight minutes and watch this. Nice work by the buffaloes when faced by a weak lion defense. (HT to Tim Sandefur for the link)....
Posted on August 11, 2007 4:26 PM • 2 Comments
... because hyenas don’t get enough good press. Click to enbiggen. (source)...
Posted on July 5, 2007 2:48 PM • 6 Comments
This image released by the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing shows front views of a new fossil panda skull, Ailuropoda microta, from Jinyin Cave, Guangxi, China, left, and a living giant panda skull, Ailuropoda melanoleuca, right....
Posted on June 18, 2007 6:45 PM • 3 Comments
Sea otter (Enhydra lutris) mother and eleven day old cub at the Sunshine International Aquarium in Tokyo. This one is specially for my daughter who loved the otters holding hands and is coming home tonight after two weeks in...
Posted on June 13, 2007 6:30 PM • 1 Comments
A newborn South African bat eared fox learns to stalk and hunt birds at the San Diego Zoo’s Wild Animal Park. Born in late April this youngster and his four siblings, not pictured, have just recently emerged from their...
Posted on June 10, 2007 8:37 PM • 2 Comments