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This is a list of extinct animals of the British Isles, including extirpated species. Only a small number of the listed species are globally extinct (most famously the Irish elk, great auk and woolly mammoth). Most of the remainder survive to some extent outside the islands.
List of extinct animals of the British Isles – many species listed became extinct due to the retreat of Arctic conditions after the last Ice Age or due to man, many now surviving in the Arctic. List of extinct plants of the British Isles; Insular dwarfism; Insular gigantism; Fauna of Great Britain; Fauna of Ireland; Flora of Great Britain
Accounts from the early 19th century suggest the grice was an aggressive animal with small tusks, an arched back, and a coat of stiff, dark bristles over a wiry, woollen fleece. [ 3 ] [ 5 ] Highland examples were described as "a small, thin-formed animal, with bristles standing up from nose to tail". [ 2 ]
However an epizootic outbreak in 1919 reduced the animals to just 50, and the last individuals were poached in 1927. [63] The only captive animal, a male, lived in Germany between 1908 and 1925 and bred with females of the lowland wisent subspecies. As a result, several wisent populations carry its genes today.
a species that colonised the islands during the glacial retreat at the end of the last ice age (c. 9500 years ago); a species that was present when the English Channel was created (c. 8000 years ago); or, a species that was present in prehistory. This list includes mammals from the small islands around Great Britain and the Channel Islands.
As an island, it has fewer breeding species than continental Europe. Some species, like the crested lark , breed as close as northern France , but have not colonised Britain. The mild winters mean that many species that cannot cope with harsher conditions can winter in Britain, and also that there is a large influx of wintering birds from the ...
Unlike other British animals, wolves were unaffected by island dwarfism, [2] with certain skeletal remains indicating that they may have grown as large as Arctic wolves. [3] The species was progressively exterminated from Britain through a combination of deforestation and active hunting through bounty systems.
This is a list of the mammal species recorded in the British Virgin Islands. Of the mammal species in the British Virgin Islands, one is vulnerable and one species has been declared extinct. [1] The following tags are used to highlight each species' conservation status as assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature: