PALEARCTIC Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forest
mammals

The mammals of the Eurasian Palearctic temperate broadleaf and mixed forest...

Order Primates

Family Cercopithecidae: Old World Monkeys

Macaca fuscata, 'Japanese Macaque', 'Snow Monkey'. (Yakushima Island, Japan). This species is the most northerly living primate (besides humans).

Order Artiodactyla : Even-toed Hoofed Mammals

Family Cervidae: Deer

Cervus nippon, 'Sika/Spotted/Japanese Deer', (Yakushima Island, Japan). Once found from northern Vietnam to Russian far east, but now only common in Japan.

Thinking of travelling again after everything settles down? One of the first expeditions I am booked to work on is the NZ sub-Antarctics with Silversea Expeditions and Australia with Coral Expeditions. And here is a shortened version of one of my lectures in a warmer part of the world.