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Western long‐beaked echidna 637


TABLE 1 Confirmed records of the western long-beaked echidna Zaglossus bruijnii in West Papua, Indonesia (Fig. 1). Record no. 1 was a carcass; records 2–4 were alive.


Record Regency


Teluk Bintuni


Nearest village Date


1 Tambrauw Warmandi 15 Jan. 2018 2


3 4


Teluk Bintuni


Teluk Bintuni


Bangun Mulia


Weight (kg)


Body length (cm)


Wasian 22 Feb. 2018 8.23 68 Tembuni 2 Mar. 2018 12.52 73 20 Apr. 2018 6.43 63


of West Papua and potentially on the offshore islands of Salawati, Batanta and Waigeo (Flannery, 1995; Helgen, 2007; Leary et al., 2016), although the degree of its persis- tence across this range is unknown. There have been no con- firmed records since the 1980s (Leary et al., 2016) and we have been unable to identify the source of the 1980s records on which the IUCN Red List assessment is based. Since this time there has been an anecdotal report from a local inhab- itant interviewed in Ayamaru in Meybrat Regency who, in 1995, claimed the species can be found across the Regency, and that it ‘lives in the surroundings of Mapura/Suwiam and between Mapura/Suwai and Kokas (a village close to Aiawasi) and around Aiawasi. It is rare on the other side of the lake (Ayamaru, Kartapura/Men, Kambuaya)’ (Pasveer, 2004,p. 407). To investigate whether the western long-beaked echidna


survives in West Papua, we visited the village of Imbuan in Tambrauw Regency, on the north coast, in January 2018,


and the villages of Tembuni, Araisum, Mogoi Baru and Bangun Mulia in Teluk Bintuni Regency during February– April 2018. These five villages are adjacent to forest habitat that is potentially suitable for the western long-beaked echidna. Interviewees (four in Tambrauw and nine in Teluk Bintuni) were identified through chain referral sampling. We interviewed people informally, seeking to speak with those who were knowledgeable about local ani- mals and plants, in particular hunters or retired hunters.We asked informal, open-ended questions about the western long-beaked echidna and whether the interviewees had encountered it locally. Interviewees were asked to describe the species and its behaviour and signs, locations where they had seen it, and any other information they thought was pertinent. The 13 interviewees were familiar with echidnas and de-


scribed sightings within the previous year. We confirmed one record in Tambrauw Regency (record 1, Table 1), from discussions with a hunter in Imbuan, who explained how he had accidentally caught an echidna on 15 January, two days before our interview, in a trap intended to catch deer and wild pigs, near Warmandi. The hunter described the hunt- ing ground where the echidna was caught as a flat, muddy, open area close to a stream, 2–3 km from the settlements, at 120–170 m altitude, and noted that the distinctive echidna foraging signs (imprints of nose-pokes) are regularly en- countered in these areas. The hunter had taken the carcass to Imbuan and we confirmed that it was a western long- beaked echidna. We confirmed three records, all alive, in Teluk Bintuni


Regency (Plate 1), and were able to take measurements (Table 1). These individuals were being retained for sale.


FIG. 1 Location of the four confirmed records of the western long-beaked echidna Zaglossus bruijnii, one in the Tambrauw and three in the Teluk Bintuni Regencies of West Papua, Indonesia.


Oryx, 2022, 56(4), 636–638 © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Fauna & Flora International doi:10.1017/S0030605321000351


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