Two new species of shrews are described from the Philippines; Crocidura panayensis sp. nov. from primary montane forest on Panay, and C. batakorum sp. nov. from secondary lowland forest on Palawan. Both taxa belong to different species groups and have different biogeographical relations. New…

In last decades, populations of the common hamster (Cricetus cricetus L.) have suffered a widespread decline all over Europe. In the Czech Republic, the hamster became endangered in the 1970s and 1980s but its real demographic status is largely unknown. Between 2001 and 2006, we carried out the…

Diet of the Eurasian otter was studied using the analysis of 2701 spraints collected along banks of 40 ponds in Českomoravská vrchovina (Bohemian-Moravian Highlands) in 2003–2004. Fish dominated the diet (80%, expressed as the relative number of individuals), with 19 different species identified.…

An adult female of the Kuhl’s pipistrelle (Pipistrellus kuhlii) was netted on the left bank of the Dyje river in Znojmo, southern Moravia (48° 51’ N, 16° 03’ E, 208 m a. s. l.) on 25 August 2007. This record represents the first evidence of this expanding bat species in the Czech Republic. It…

The paper summarises the results of comparing several non-metric methods of age determination in the red fox, based on skull material. The methods under comparison include examination of tooth wear(M1) and occlusion of selected cranial sutures (os basioccipitale-os basisphenoidale, os…

The paper summarises data on the history and breeding of the Barbary sheep in the zoological gardens of the Czech Republic, and data available on the free-living population in the Plzeň District in the 1970s to 1990s. This population originated through repeated escapes of the Barbary sheep from the…

Two mounds made by the steppe mouse were found near Vlaherna, distr. Arta, Epeirus, Greece. They were hidden among dense and tall vegetation in balks along a small maize fi eld. On October 18, mounds already contained store chambers full of spikes of Yellow bristle grass (Setaria pumila), Bermuda…

During last decades, populations of the brown hare (Lepus europaeus) have declined considerably all over Europe. We analyse the time series of annual bags in 9 hunting areas around the city of Olomouc between 1964 and 2002 using the statistical modelling approach. We revealed a downward trend in all…

We captured three individuals of two small mammal species showing complete melanism in a riparian stand of Phragmiti-Magnocaricetea (the range from Phragmition to Magnocaricatalia biotopes) in the Podunajská nížina Lowland – two individuals of the bicoloured white-toothed shrew (Crocidura leucodon)…

An adult male of the golden jackal (Canis aureus) was found dead close to the road near Podolí (Uherské Hradiště District, southern Moravia) on 19 March 2006. The species determination was confirmed by the presence of characteristic morphological and craniological traits (length of tail, connate…

New records of the northern bat (Eptesicus nilssonii) from two sites on the Padiş Plateau in the Apuseni Mts (NW Romania) are reported. These findings give the first evidence of the species’ presence in a large area between the Ukrainian parts of the Carpathians and the south-westernmost piedmont of…

One pregnant female together with two adult males of the pond bat, Myotis dasycneme, were captured at a water channel of the Morava river in Veselí nad Moravou (SE Moravia), giving the first direct evidence of reproduction of this species in the Czech Republic. This record extends the known area of…

On 14 August 2007, one individual of the garden dormouse was live-trapped at Šelmberk (Český les Mts, western Bohemia). It has been the first record of the species in the Český les Mts since 1980. All existing data on the distribution of the garden dormouse in this region are summarized in the…

In 2006, we reported on the distribution of Nasua nasua vittata on the Roraima Tepui as two independent observations of at least two individuals in March 2002 and January 2003. Moreover, in 2007, second and third authors observed another five individuals of coati on the Chimantá Massif (approx.…

The paper provides the first comprehensive bibliography on the chamois in the Nízke Tatry Mts. Using the key words “chamois” and “Nízke Tatry” altogether, 167 published and unpublished documents from the period 1966–2007 have been gathered. The documents were classified into particular categories…

This summary comprises Bachelor, Master, Doctor, and Habilitation theses in mammalogy defended at the Faculty of Forestry and Environment, Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague in the years 1996–2007. The summary provides a brief roudup about the themes tackled. Master and Doctor theses…

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