Fight! Fight! Fight!

Hi Graham,

Long time no post, so I hope that you are well. Looking forward to seeing you next month - are you thinking of staying for the weekend beforehand? If so then maybe we could manage a Mammalogia field trip into the highlands ...

In the meantime, here is the first of my photos taken in the French Alps this summer. Antagonistic behaviour Alpine Marmot style.

Maybe they are laughing at the fact that I can't ever get a shot in focus?...

Geoff

p.s. that's another point (and tick) to me I think

I'll cap that with a capybara

I should have known I couldn't fool a fooler, Geoff.


Yes, the mountain critter in question was an alpine marmot with the enigmatic bionomial Marmota marmota. Snapped above Zermatt in Switzerland.


Groovy chipmunk. And not one I can match. We have our own chipmunks in the Foret de Soignes in the south of Brussels. Very cheeky chappies, particularly as they're feral Siberian chipmunks. I won't count that one, but just wanted to show my striped squirrel credentials.


Talking of rodents, I thought I should share a snap of the king of the gnawers - capybaras living in a tributary of the Peruvian Amazon. And while we're about it let's throw in a red and grey squirrel each for good measure.


Geoff 10, Graham 9




Keep those binoculars handy...


Graham