Wow! Valerie Corey, Erwin Rendón and I saw a new mammal for La Esperanza day before yesterday: OLINGO! What a neat creature! It actually ZOOMS through the trees, but I managed to see two individuals that clearly met the bill. Makes me want to go a bit higher and find the new related species discovered this month that should be within 30km of us…

Thanks to Valerie who, with her immense experience in Tanzania, knew immediately that the noise we heard was a mammal, not a bird. BAM! Out come the lights and down the trail we go, and just in time!