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Panta rhei Panta rhei is the ancient Greek expression for ‘everything flows.’ It is a valuable aphorism for all aspects of life. The famous Greek philosopher Heraclitus (who lived around 600 B.C.) is said to have remarked: “Only change itself is a real, constant and eternal flux, like the continuous...

First recording of the soprano pipistrelle ( Pipistrellus pygmaeus) in the Netherlands In the early 1990s, the soprano pipistrelle ( Pipistrellus pygmaeus) was recognised as a separate (cryptic) species. It is now considered to be widespread in Europe, but was unknown in the Benelux countries until...

The mammalogist’s toolkit The use of tools by mammals is an exceptional phenomenon (van der Grift 2010). By contrast Homo sapiens use tools for most of their activities. But what tools do we need for scientific mammal research? A brief historical review will help put this question in perspective...