Episode Details

We interview father and son Hari and Venkat Sankar about their mammalwatching adventures at home in California and around the world. We talk about how Venkat got the mammalwatching bug when he was 14 after a very close encounter with Wild Dogs; Venkat's love for rats and bats; and how their relationship survived the Puma that Hari saw but Venkat didn't.

Here is the YouTube trailer.

For more information visit www.mammalwatching.com/podcast

Notes: Venkat has many trip reports on mammalwatching.com including Kenya & Tanzania, 2013; Central African Republic, 2015; lots of information on California; and several ground breaking Mexican trips plus his epic July 2021 Kenya trip. Here is more information on Pousargue's Mongoose.

Cover art: Wild Dogs by Venkat Sankar.

Dr Charles Foley is a mammalwatcher and biologist who, together with his wife Lara, spent 30 years studying elephants in Tanzania. They now run the Tanzania Conservation Research Program at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago.

Jon Hall set up mammalwatching.com in 2005. Genetically Welsh, spiritually Australian, currently in New York City. He has looked for mammals in over 100 countries.

Produced and edited by José G. Martínez-Fonseca mammalwatcher, photographer and wildlife biologist.