Potential sighting of the Sokoke dog mongoose <i>Bdeogale omnivora</i> in the East Usambara, Tanzania

Abstract

During a bird watching excursion to the Amani Nature Reserve (East Usambara Mountains), Tanzania, in July 2003, five ornithologists encountered a mongoose of the Bdeogale-group. The mongoose was most likely the Sokoke dog mongoose Bdeogale omnivore Heller, 1913, a species first observed from this area in 1939, but not reported since then.

Journal of East African Natural History Vol. 94(1) 2005: 235-238