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gbin wrote:
Andy Avram wrote:I have a few interesting shots, but I will start off today with a Least Weasel...
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Are you sure on that ID, Andy? The animal in your picture looks more like a mink to me, and the setting seems more like where one would encounter a mink, too. A least weasel's eyes and ears should look larger, as in stlouisdude's picture:
Gerry,

Positive on the ID. The area was a vast open field/prairie, the weasel had a little short tail, a complete white belly (not just white spotting on the chin and throat) and it (along with it's mate) was only 6" long.

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Here is a little Tricolored Bat (Perimyotis subflavus) where i used to work as a cave guide in college. Not a great quality photo, sorry. I always enjoyed seeing these little guys.

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Mystery Canid, Southern IN. ;)
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The only decent wild mammal shot I've got:

Long-tailed Weasel
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Hoary Bat

"My first thought was, he lied in every word,
That hoary cripple, with malicious eye..."

justinm wrote: UID Bat, it was larger and alone
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Hoary Bats do not hibernate in caves, nor do I even think they hibernate at all. They migrate south.
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Andy Avram wrote:Hoary Bats do not hibernate in caves, nor do I even think they hibernate at all. They migrate south.
Our Hoarys are supposed to winter in Mexico. That one was in a cave in Southern Indiana in January. Unless you think it's something else, but what else could it be?
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Central American Wooly Opossum.
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Marty Whalin wrote:
Andy Avram wrote:Hoary Bats do not hibernate in caves, nor do I even think they hibernate at all. They migrate south.
Our Hoarys are supposed to winter in Mexico. That one was in a cave in Southern Indiana in January. Unless you think it's something else, but what else could it be?
Red Bats, which like Hoary Bats are in the genus Lasiurus, and migrate south. If cold weather hits while migrating they just plunge into the leaf litter and wait for reasonable weather. There is some evidence they hibernate under the leaf litter too. Either way not a cave species. Hoary Bats are also huge, noticeably bigger than other bats you will see, and have a different colored head than the body.

That dew covered bat is hard to tell. Tri-colored Bats (formerly E. Pipistrelles) are known to commonly become dew covered if hibernating away from a group, but their arms are pink. Your bat's arms are black. I would call it is Myotis sp. of some sort, Little Brown, E. Small-footed, Northern, etc... Looks too small to be a Big Brown Bat, which should be your only option outside of Myotis.

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UID Bat, it was larger and alone
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Red Fur Bat
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The first pic looks like a cluster of Indiana's. The second photo looks like a Tricolor (the new name for the Pipistrelle) but like stated above, the forearms dont seem to be the right color. That said, maybe the angle, lighting etc. makes the forearm color appear different. It would be alot easier to ID with a size comparison of some kind. I would agree it is some type of myotis, probably a Little Brown or Pip.

The Red Bats are my favorite bat species!
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Red Fox kit

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Big Brown Bat Eptesicus fuscus, and not happy at all.
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I don't think anyone has posted anything from Order Scandentia yet?

Northern Tree Shrew

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Since there's so much bat love on this thread, here's a couple of my favourite shots from last year:

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Epauletted Fruit Bat, RSA.
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I haven't seen any Macroscelidae yet.

Eastern Rock Elephant Shrew. Marrick Safari Lodge, South Africa.
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Leopard Seal, the lion of Antarctica.
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He swam under the zodiac and was about the same length, 12 feet.
He was chasing these:
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Here's a Gray Squirrel. I think he's playing 'possum.
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Something I love eating
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stlouisdude wrote:Something I love eating
I don't believe you. Have any photos to prove it?
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It's hard to be level headed here.


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stlouisdude wrote: Something I love eating
Spare me the double entendre.

Madison river, Montana C. canadensis
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Tai haku, those Epauletted Fruit bat shots are really cool.
Nice job.

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Bengal Tiger, India Jan '10.
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Black-mantled Tamarin wrecking a stalk of bananas.

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Curtis... you take some awesome trips and have seen some truly awe-inspiring wildlife. I want to tag along with you on your next trip.
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Andy Avram wrote:Curtis... you take some awesome trips and have seen some truly awe-inspiring wildlife.
A yeah ditto that. Is that Tiger photo from the "wilds" of India? If so that had to be a rush.

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Another happy mammal to have it's photo taken by me. I have the same affect on women too.
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Long-tailed Weasel with prey, Glacier National Park.
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Thanks Andy and Dell. Andy, I just got back from Africa, so it could be a while until I take off again. I'll let you know though.
The Tiger was in the "wild", one of the major Tiger parks. I'll do a full post on it sometime. I'm going to take it slow with the mammal posts. Maybe one a week or so. I'm not sure when I'll get to that one.
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Curtis Hart wrote:The Tiger was in the "wild", one of the major Tiger parks.
Awesome.

I had to crawl up our boat docks scaffolding to get this poor photo of a Three toed Sloth.
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Dell,,,,,, a badger……. ……….. Really
I mean ………………………………. Really……
We don’t need no stinking badgers.



In NW FL, an out building that looked like this,

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And had a target animal under the board in the foreground,

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Also had this coon in the rafters.

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Another Middle Eastern BJ:
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Rough-toothed Dolphins, 50 miles of South Padre.
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Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin
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Okay, I keed, I keed! These were taken at Zoo Atlanta. I just wanted to contribute something to this already outstanding thread. Mind boggling pictures everyone, very well done!
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EDIT: If PhotoBucket doesn't stop re-orienting pictures for me I'm gonna freak out. Sorry for the turned picture.....
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Dusky Leaf-monkey (Trachypithecus obscurus) Penang, Malaysia.

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Purple-faced Leaf Monkey, Sri Lanka.
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I really like that shot of the Dusky Langur.
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Gray Fox

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Josh, I am going to go with Gray Fox.
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Andy Avram wrote:Josh, I am going to go with Gray Fox.
I knew that, posted too early in the morning! :crazyeyes: :sleep: :crazyeyes:
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Arctic Shrew, thanks to Chis Smith for taking me out to find this.
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Curtis that Shrew shot is nice, and it reminded me of the Water Shrew I found as kid. I took it to my science teacher in Junior high, who went a little crazy over it, slapping me on the back. He made me feel like I'd found a lost species, he loved it.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... G_9035.JPG

I hope Warren doesn't see this, he'll want to eat one, if he hasn't already.

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Bullwinkle's girl friend, Montana.
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I hope Warren doesn't see this, he'll want to eat one, if he hasn't already.
I think I did eat one, but I can't remember, as I may have blocked out the traumatic memory.
Constantly eating, vicious, stinky, venomous, echolocating little MFers ... that huge brain doesn't stop them from getting killed all the time ... but I can say the same about humans.
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From the other night, 30 feet up in a slash pine (with no branches below it.) Saw it from a quarter mile away from the eyeshine.

Lynx rufus
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Geoffroy's Tamarin, Panama.
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Dell, I did see a Northern Water Shrew the same day as the Arctic. The long hairs on the feet were pretty cool.

Josh, that Bobcat is really nice.
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Some great photos here. I will have to add a couple of my own later...
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The Bobcat photo is a cracker.
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Colugo, Java
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