Mammals Khao Yai (1 Viewer)

Steve Babbs

Well-known member

• Mar 13, 2018

• #1

Dear all

Can anyone recommend the best area at Khao Yai for gaur? Any other recent mammal gen appreciated too.

Thanks in advance

Steve

 

jurek

Well-known member

• Mar 14, 2018

• #2

Hi,
I think the best strategy would be to contact knowledgeable guide. I had one from the Greenleaf ??? Guesthouse and he showed me a Binturong and Pileated gibbons. Unfortunately I can no longer recall details. I also had good sightings driving up and down the main road at dawn and dusk as far as allowed. Don't book touristy night drives, they are a laugh. Be extra careful about elephants - European tourists showed us photos of a bull trashing their car taken from inside. If approached drive or run away immediately.

 

JWN Andrewes

Poor Judge of Pasta.

• Mar 14, 2018

• #3

You've probably found this already, and the info is pretty basic, but just in case you've missed it...

https://www.thainationalparks.com/list-of-mammals-of-thailand

It recently helped me in figuring out which Flying Squirrel I would have seen at Doi Inthanon.

 

Steve Babbs

Well-known member

• Mar 16, 2018

• #4

jurek said:

Hi,
Be extra careful about elephants - European tourists showed us photos of a bull trashing their car taken from inside. If approached drive or run away immediately.

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Don't worry; I've spent a lot of time driving in Southern Africa, and I have been charged by an elephant. I've also seen the video. I'm always extremely cautious around elephants.

 

Andy Adcock

Worst person on Birdforum

• Mar 16, 2018

• #5

Steve Babbs said:

Don't worry; I've spent a lot of time driving in Southern Africa, and I have been charged by an elephant. I've also seen the video. I'm always extremely cautious around elephants.

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The problems come not when you're in a car but if you chance on them on foot.

Last time I was at KY, there were Elephant prints everywhere and we were extremely cautious.

We were unfortunate on our last trip to South Africa, to witness an almost fatal Buffalo attack after an animal got in to the private and supposedly secure, compound that we were staying at on the edge of Kruger.


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Steve Babbs

Well-known member

• Mar 16, 2018

• #6

Elephants do appear to have got a lot commoner since I was last in Thailand, which is quite exciting as I've only ever had brief, poor views of Asian elephant but I lost my recklessness when I became a father and will be cautious.

 

gandytron

Well-known member

• Mar 29, 2018

• #7

Steve,

Sorry to be a bit late in replying to this thread which I only just saw.

The best place for Gaur seems to be on the north side of the park. There are a number of guard stations and at two of these that I have been taken to we visited elevated hides giving views over open grassland. Whilst we were hoping for Gaur we instead had a large pack of Dhole pass in front of us, which put paid to any hopes of a Gaur encounter.

At a third guard station we saw an apparently wild female Gaur that had been rescued as a calf and had eventually returned to the forest and joined a herd, but every year or so when she was calving she’d return to the guard station!

To visit these sites I think getting a local guide would be a good option.

Best wishes,

Dave

 

Steve Babbs

Well-known member

• Mar 29, 2018

• #8

Thanks for all the advice.

 

Last edited: Mar 29, 2018