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Shrewly awesome! by Carl Knight Hi my name is Carl and I am a volunteer here at the Mammal Society. I have just completed my undergraduate degree in Mathematics at the University of Sussex and am hoping to go on to complete a Masters in either Zoology or Ecology. I have always found shrews fascinating… 

Seals in Sussex by Stephen Savage My initial experience with seals was in my early career as an aquarist of a public aquarium. This role included the husbandry of 2 rescued harbour seals, housed at the aquarium as they could not be returned to the wild. After a while, 2 seals became 3 when a… 

Flying bat, hidden roost by Kieran O’Malley It is early May 2019 and my life is squashed down to just a few bags that I can (somewhat) comfortably carry on a bus from Leeds to Brighton. This is no weekend getaway, but the start of my 4 year-long PhD at the University of Sussex on… 

Saving Ratty by Merryl Gelling Upbeat and endlessly cheerful, one would have thought life for Ratty from Wind in the Willows was an endless whirl of wicker luncheon baskets and carol singers, with little to fear apart from those dastardly stoats and weasels taking over Toad Hall. Not so for the British water vole however…. 

National Mammal Week is here! 18-27 October 2019

On 20 October Mammal Society Chair, Professor Fiona Mathews, will be running her first ever marathon!    Fiona will be running the Amsterdam Marathon to raise much needed funds for the Mammal Society. All money raised will go towards helping to fund ongoing Mammal Society activities (including monitoring, advising, and providing training), all of which… 

Hi, Emily again 🙂 This week I have decided to write about weasels. They are our smallest carnivore and widespread throughout Britain, but absent from most off-shore islands and Ireland. Being so widespread, it is perhaps unsurprising that they are found in a wide range of habitats. These range from urban areas, marshes, woodland, lowland pasture… 

Like most small children growing up in the early 1960s (and other children to this day, of course) I was fascinated by dinosaurs but I don’t ever recall giving that much thought to their bones.  Artists’ impressions of their reconstructed bodies filled the children’s reference books that I devoured, alongside other books on more contemporary…