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[47] [62] Other mammals that used to inhabit Scotland but became extinct in the wild during historic times include the Eurasian lynx, which lived in Britain until 1,500 years ago, [53] the European brown bear, subspecies Ursus arctos caledoniensis, which was taken to entertain the Roman circuses [63] but died out in the 9th or 10th century, and ...
European beavers have been reintroduced to parts of Scotland, and there are plans to bring them back to other parts of Britain. A five-year trial reintroduction at Knapdale in Argyll started in 2009 and concluded in 2014. [72] A few hundred beavers live wild in the Tay river basin, as a result of escapes from a wildlife park. [73]
Paul Lister plans to release Eurasian lynx, brown bear, grey wolf, elk, wild boar and species already present in Scotland into a huge 200 km 2 (49,000-acre) enclosure at his estate, Alladale Wilderness Reserve, [21] although releasing top predators such as wolves and bears has become a difficult proposition with local and national regulations. [21]
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However, in recent times some of these large mammals have been tentatively reintroduced to some areas of Britain. The largest wild mammals that remain in Britain today are predominantly members of the deer family. The red deer is the largest native mammal species, and is common throughout England, Scotland and Wales.
The Hebrides (Outer Hebrides in orange). The flora and fauna of the Outer Hebrides in northwest Scotland comprises a unique and diverse ecosystem.A long archipelago, set on the eastern shores of the Atlantic Ocean, it attracts a wide variety of seabirds, and thanks to the Gulf Stream a climate more mild than might be expected at this latitude.
In Europe, there are 14,000 brown bears in ten fragmented populations, from Spain (estimated at only 20–25 animals in the Pyrenees in 2010, [5] [6] in a range shared between Spain, France and Andorra, and some 210 animals in Asturias, Cantabria, Galicia and León, in the Picos de Europa and adjacent areas in 2013 [7]) in the west, to Russia in the east, and from Sweden and Finland in the ...
The historic distribution of bears and the impression the Eurasian brown bear has made on people are reflected in the names of several localities (some notable examples include Bern, Medvednica, Otepää and Ayu-Dag), as well as personal names—for example, Xiong, Bernard, Arthur, Ursula, Urs, Ursicinus, Orsolya, Björn, Nedved, Medvedev, and ...