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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.
Scotland hosts the only populations of the Scottish wildcat (Felis silvestris) in the British Isles with numbers estimated at between 400 and 2,000 animals, [29] and of the red fox subspecies Vulpes vulpes vulpes, a larger race than the more common V. v. crucigera and which has two distinct forms. [30]
List of Asian animals extinct in the Holocene; List of European species extinct in the Holocene. List of extinct animals of the British Isles; List of North American animals extinct in the Holocene. List of Antillian and Bermudan animals extinct in the Holocene; List of Oceanian animals extinct in the Holocene. List of Australia-New Guinea ...
The fauna of Scotland is generally typical of the north-west European part of the Palearctic realm, although several of the country's larger mammals were hunted to extinction in historic times. Scotland 's diverse temperate environments support 62 species of wild mammals, including a population of wild cats and important numbers of grey and ...
From the pygmy tarsier (a mouse-sized big-eyed animal that weighs almost 60 grams) to the Coelacanth (the closest link between fish and the first amphibian creatures which made the transition from ...
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 ]
The Scottish wildcat, a population of European wildcat found only in Scotland, is a critically endangered animal. But for one local conservation group, the Scottish Wildcat Haven, they are not ...
Pages in category "Lists of extinct animals by region" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.