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Occidental Gerbil Gerbillus occiduus is a medium-sized gerbil species (Muridae: Gerbillinae) endemic to Morocco and Atlantic Sahara. The type specimen wa...
Raccoon Dogs Nyctereutes procyonoides are native to the far east of Asia, particularly Korea and Japan (where they are called ‘Tanuki’). They are not related to...
Have you noticed that there seems to be more horseflies present in the UK during summer 2017 compared to previous years? There are certainly more where I live i...
During a recent holiday in Gran Canaria I was fortunate to encounter a robber fly (Promachus latitarsatus). Initially it was sat motionless on a rock before lau...
I’m going to put this out there at the start; I’m a big fan of Roe Deer! They might not be the most glamorous of species, not too exciting certainly, but I see ...
Fallow Deer Dama dama, which is characteristic of large mature woodland is the only British deer exhibiting palmate antlers and is intermediate between Red Cerv...
The lampreys (family Petromyzonidae) belong to a small but important group known as Agnatha, which literally means ‘jawless’; there are around 45 species worldw...
The term ‘legless lizard’ refers to several groups of lizards that, through evolution, have either lost their limbs or reduced them to the point of serving no l...
Author: Robert Lambert
Assistant Professor in Environmental History, University of Nottingham
My Rare Bird Alert pager bleeped insistently at precisely 2...
