Small Carnivore Conservation

A camera-trap record of a Crab-eating Mongoose Herpestes urva from the Indian portion of the Terai Arc Landscape in Nandhaur Wildlife Sanctuary, north-west India

Khursid A Khan — 2022-11-17

A Crab-eating Mongoose Herpestes urva was camera-trapped in Nandhaur Wildlife Sanctuary, Uttarakhand state, India, on 15 March 2021. This locality lies within the Indian portion of the Terai Arc Landscape and represents the westernmost known distribution of the species.

A record of a North American Raccoon Procyon lotor charging at a Coyote Canis latrans

Sam Zeveloff — 2022-08-25

The video of a brief encounter between a Coyote Canis latrans and a North American Raccoon Procyon lotor, in a suburban backyard in California, is described. In the footage, the Raccoon chases the Coyote, supporting other observations that, in some contexts, Raccoons do not fear Coyotes and may behave aggressively toward them.

Two observations of Pousargues’s Mongoose Dologale dybowskii in Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda

Jon Hall — 2022-08-26

Pousargues’s Mongoose Dologale dybowskii is a little-known mongoose endemic to Central Africa. It is believed to be rare. This note describes observations, illustrated by photographs, of several individual animals that appear to be Pousargues’s Mongooses, in July and August 2021, in Murchinson Falls National Park, Uganda. The identification was made on the basis of size, colouring and behaviour.

Yellow-bellied Weasel Mustela kathiah preying on a rat Niviventer in Darjeeling, India

Aditya Pradhan — 2022-11-17

A Yellow-bellied Weasel Mustela kathiah was observed catching and killing a rat Niviventer inside a house in Darjeeling, India, at an elevation of 1600 m asl. Photographs and details of the observation are provided. The diet of Yellow-bellied Weasel is poorly known and this report adds to the limited literature on the species.

New records for the first time in six decades of the Vulnerable Marbled Polecat Vormela peregusna in Iraq

Omar Al-Sheikhly — 2022-09-20

The Marbled Polecat Vormela peregusna is one of Iraq’s rarest mustelids; it is confined to the steppes, arid plains and sparsely vegetated foothills of the northern parts of the country. A few specimens were collected around the vicinity of Mosul in the 1950s; its current status and distribution is mostly unknown. This note describes two new records, obtained in northern Iraq in 2021.

Evidence of Spotted Linsang Prionodon pardicolor post-weaning parental care

Russell Gray — 2022-08-26

This note describes a camera-trap record of a juvenile Spotted Linsang Prionodon pardicolor closely following an adult in north–central Vietnam in the Khe Choang area of Pu Mat National Park, Nghe An province, Vietnam. The pup’s presumed age and physical ability indicate that this image provides evidence of Spotted Linsang parental care after weaning.