Altogether 1592 marmot burrows were recorded in the Nízke Tatry Mts. and their altitude was measured using GPS equipment. 21 colonies were found on the northern and 19 colonies on the southern side of the main mountain range. Three burrow systems (colonies) were abandoned, the rest was composed of…

Food preference of small rodents to consume the roots of wild plants was studied on three wet meadows in southern Bohemia (Czech Republic) in 2002–2007. Small mammals were sampled for three nights in the autumnal periods in these meadows; 100 snap traps per a site, two 25-trap-rows in meadow parts…

The endangered Mehelyi’s root vole, Microtus oeconomus mehelyi Éhik, 1928, is the rarest vole subspecies in Central Europe. The decrease in its population size and numbers has justified the strict protection of this subspecies in Slovakia since 1965, and in Hungary since 1974. In addition, Mehelyi’s…

A small mammal assemblage from the Stránská skála cave in Brno (about 200 m from the famous section Stránská skála 1) is reported. The assemblage (MNI=175) was obtained from sedimentary infill underlying the surface bone deposit of Ursus deningeri. Although it exhibits structural features typical of…

Emergence behaviour of a maternity colony of Daubenton’s bat (Myotis daubentonii) occupying an artificial roost was studied between 1999 and 2009 in South Bohemia, Czech Republic. The time of emergence of the first bat (TFB), rather than the median time of emergence, was used in the analysis, as…

Bats of the Upper Thracian valley in southern Bulgaria were poorly studied, and the information on urban fauna in the Balkan Peninsula was scarce. Therefore, our study was aimed at the two largest towns of this region – Plovdiv and Stara Zagora. Nine bat species were newly recorded in Plovdiv…

The paper presents new data on the distribution of small mammals (Erinaceomorpha, Soricomorpha, and Rodentia) in the Muránska planina National Park (central Slovakia) and adjacent areas, gathered in the period 1981–2009. The new records were obtained by trapping (using snap-, pitfall- and…

Echolocation calls identified as searching calls of Tadarida teniotis were recorded at two sites in the forested mountainous part of the Crimean Peninsula, Ukraine, in September 2009. Description of the records is given and possible occurrence of T. teniotis in Crimea is discussed.

An individual of the northern birch mouse (Sicista betulina) was observed in the eastern part of the Boletice military training area (southern Bohemia, Czech Republic) on 18 May 2007. The sighting took place in abandoned wet meadows in a creek flood plain. Possible occurrence of the species in the…

A right humerus of a mole (Talpa sp.) was found in Tyto alba pellets collected near the castle ruins of Qala’at Salah ad Din, western Syria (Al Lathiqiyeh Prov., 35° 36’ N, 36° 03’ E), on 30 June 1998. Considering biogeographic reasoning, the bone is likely to belong to T. davidiana, a species known…

Bicoloured white-toothed shrew was recorded in Slovenia from dry and termophilous oak, hop hornbeam and beech forests, from mainland beech forests and high altitude mountain pine stands. Although Crocidura leucodon seems to be more abundant in open habitats, its presence in forests is evidently not…

To the 1st January 2008, there were kept 73 species of endangered mammals species (forms) in 19 Czech and Slovak zoological gardens. In 2007, there were bred both two species extinct in the wild (EW) and from 20 critical endangered species (CR), 12 ones were bred, while from 51 endangered species…

An addendum to the previously published list of cetacean specimens in several Czech collections (Robovský & Benda 2006) is given, based on a detailed survey across a large number of institutions (museums, castles, churches, etc.). In the collection of National Museum Praha (NMP), we found additional…

In the Senckenberg Natural History collection Dresden, Museum für Tierkunde Dresden there are specimens of five tiger forms, which are briefly introduced with morphometric data. The material includes four skulls of the extinct Javan tiger Panthera sondaica sondaica, one skull of the Sumatran tiger,…

This paper comprises comprehensive bibliography on the Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra) in the Nízke Tatry (Low Tatras Mts.) National Park. Otter is autochthonous species in water streams in this territory. 143 documents or literary sources were found, both published (126 items) and unpublished (17),…