Mammalogy Notes

Halting predicted vertebrate declines requires tackling multiple drivers of biodiversity loss Global vertebrate populations decline faster in the presence of multiple threats compared to single threats.

Halting predicted vertebrate declines requires tackling multiple drivers of biodiversity loss | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Mammalogy Notes acaba de publicar su primer número del 2026. #mamífero, #mammal mammalogynotes.org/ojs/index.ph...

The 14th International Mammalogical Congress (IMC) is coming! 🦔🌍
Organised by the International Federation of Mammalogists (IFM), a global benchmark in mammal research, held every four years. #IMC2027 #14ºIMC #14thIMC More information: 14imc2027.com

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Comparing two methods for surveying nocturnal arboreal mammals in a tropical forest – thermal observations from an elevated platform and arboreal camera traps - Mammal Research Arboreal mammals, particularly nocturnal species, are one of the least studied mammalian groups but make up a significant percentage of mammalian species richness in the tropics. The challenging condi...

Comparing two methods for surveying nocturnal arboreal mammals in a tropical forest – thermal observations from an elevated platform and arboreal camera traps
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Infographic titled “The Drain of Scientific Publishing,” describing four problems in scholarly publishing: Money, Time, Trust, and Control. Money: Illustration of flying dollar bills and buildings beside a bank. Text explains that for-profit publishers charge unreasonable reading and publishing fees disconnected from production costs, noting that Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley, and Taylor & Francis made $US 12 billion profit from 2019–2024. Time: Illustration of a stressed researcher surrounded by stacks of papers and a clock. Text states researchers spend enormous time as authors, reviewers, and editors, maintaining a system that prioritizes quantity over quality, causing burnout and reduced rigor. Trust: Illustration of a magnifying glass over retracted papers. Text describes commercial pressures to publish quickly, enabling low-quality and fraudulent papers, eroding public confidence. Control: Illustration of a person with medals labeled with journal metrics. Text explains that rankings like journal impact factor and h-index dictate success, with infrastructures biased toward English journals and controlled by for-profit companies. At the bottom, a stop-sign graphic reads “Stop the Drain.” Additional text calls for altering incentives and ownership of publishing, re-communalizing scholarly publishing, building community-led systems, preventing unreasonable profits, and using existing open models and infrastructures (e.g., preprints, diamond journals, OJS, SciELO). A final statement urges aligning research assessment with open, community-led publishing.

📣 Our friends at the #ScholCommLab have published a preprint, "The Drain of #ScientificPublishing", and are calling for #research communities, funders, governments, and #universities to "re-communalise publishing to serve #science not the market"

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Significado de #mastozoología mastozoología: dícese del estudio científico de los mamíferos... mastozoología

In this article, Gatiso et al share their findings on a new natural language processing pipeline that automates global monitoring of wildlife perceptions, tracking progress on #biodiversity targets. Find out more at doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

Ancient humans made elephant bone tools in Europe half a million years ago | Natural History Museum A prehistoric tool is reshaping our understanding of Europe’s early inhabitants.

One of the world's oldest elephant bone tools has been discovered in the UK! 🐘

The ancient hammer would have been used to sharpen handaxes and other tools that prehistoric humans were using to hunt and butcher animals.

Find out what else this discovery reveals 👇
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

Guía Ilustrada de los Mamíferos de Colombia - Reseña de libro - Mammalogy Notes. doi.org/10.47603/man...

In Ecuador’s Yasuní, cameras reveal the wild neighbors visitors rarely see Ecuador’s northern Amazon is home to some of the most biodiverse areas on the planet, including Yasuní National Park. But visitors are rarely able to see iconic large mammals like deer, lowland…

In Ecuador, the Kichwa Sani Isla community and fStop Foundation are using high-resolution camera traps — some 40 meters up in the canopy — to document local wildlife.

Since Feb, they’ve recorded at least six jaguars, signalling a healthy ecosystem. Ecotourism at Sani Lodge helps protect the forest.

Peru’s Río Abiseo park yields new marsupial, hinting at more undiscovered species In 2018, Brazilian biologist Silvia Pavan traveled to Río Abiseo National Park, in Peru’s San Martín region, following the trail of a squirrel species first described from there in the 1990s. At the…

On an expedition to a remote Peruvian reserve to search for a squirrel last seen 30 years ago, researcher Silvia Pavan’s team instead discovered a new mouse opossum species, Marmosa chachapoya.

With reddish-brown fur and a narrow face, it highlights how understudied the eastern Andes remain.

Prevalence and patterns of convergent ecomorphological evolution in rodents Abstract. Convergent evolution occurs when independent adaptations to similar conditions lead to species that are more similar than expected given their ph

🐁 New publication: We tested for convergent evolution in rodents and found convergent traits but little support for traditional ecomorph designations.

* collab with @nhcooper123.bsky.social, @guillermodelia.bsky.social & @fabrovillalobos.bsky.social
* illustrations by me

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TONIGHT join the National Center for Science Education zoom webinar for their Friends of Darwin and Friends of the Planet 2025 Awards! #EvMed #SciComm #Biology #Conservation us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Taxonomic and Spatiotemporal Patterns and Ecological Correlates of New Mammal Distribution Records in China Aim Species' distributions are central to research in biogeography, macroecology and conservation biology. However, incomplete or inaccurate knowledge about species' spatiotemporal distribution rang.....

Taxonomic and Spatiotemporal Patterns and Ecological Correlates of New Mammal Distribution Records in China - Ding - 2025 - Global Ecology and Biogeography - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Primeros registros de la guagua loba (Dinomys branickii) en el Huila, Colombia | Mammalogy Notes doi.org/10.47603/man... #mammal #mammalgynotes

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Caracterización de las señales acústicas de Lasiurus ega (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) en Santander, Colombia. | Mammalogy Notes doi.org/10.47603/man... #mammalogynotes, #mammal, #chiroptera, #bat

Access to the List of Mammal Species of Colombia The goal of mammalcol is to provide easy access to a meticulously structured dataset of Colombian mammal species in R. The 2025 update includes comprehensive, detailed species accounts, and distributi...

mammalcol is now on CRAN. Get easy access to the List of Mammal Species of Colombia using #mammalcol #R package #rstats
📦 dlizcano.github.io/mammalcol