Synopsis of Philippine Mammals To explore the Synopsis of
Philippine Mammals, click here. To explore the Supplement to the
Synopsis of Philippine Mammals, click here. The mammalian fauna
of the Philippine Islands is remarkably diverse and species-
rich, comprising what may be the greatest concentration of
endemic mammals of any country on earth. Since 1988, the Field
Museum of Natural History has been the primary base of
operations for the Philippine Mammal Project, a multi-
institutional, international collaborative effort to document
the number of species that are present, the distributions of
those species, their relationships within the tree of life,
their ecology, and their conservation status. This website, the
Synopsis of Philippine Mammals, is a summary of the information
that is currently available. The website was first implemented
in 2002, using information from the 1998 publication by Heaney
et al., entitled “A Synopsis of the Mammalian Fauna of the
Philippine Islands”. The Synopsis website was exte