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The hazel dormouse is native to northern Europe and Asia Minor. It is the only dormouse native to the British Isles, and is therefore often referred to simply as the "dormouse" in British sources, although the edible dormouse, Glis glis, has been accidentally introduced and now has an established population in South East England.
The word dormouse comes from Middle English dormous, of uncertain origin, possibly from a dialectal element *dor-, from Old Norse dár ' benumbed ' and Middle English mous ' mouse '. The word is sometimes conjectured to come from an Anglo-Norman derivative of dormir ' to sleep ' , with the second element mistaken for mouse , but no such Anglo ...
Tiny rare dormice underwent a health check as the ZSL London Zoo prepares to release them into the wild in an effort to reintroduce the species once common across England and Wales. Each British ...
"Hazel Dormouse" bridge over the bypass road in the south-west of the town The town is situated on the Bundesstraße 6 , which connects Dresden and Görlitz at the Polish border. The Bundesautobahn 4 bypasses the town 6 km north, enabling easy access to Dresden Airport .
The forest was home to 46 different mammal species. Of these, seven have disappeared altogether: the brown bear (around 1000), the wolf (around 1810), the hazel dormouse (around 1842), the red deer, the badger and the hare. Stag beetles have also disappeared from the forest. [8]
Eliomys contains the following extant species: . Asian garden dormouse, Eliomys melanurus; Maghreb garden dormouse, Eliomys munbyanus; Garden dormouse, Eliomys quercinus; The earliest records of the genus are known from the Late Miocene of the Iberian Peninsula.
President Donald Trump and his team are having discussions about merging USAID into the State Department in order to significantly reduce the size of the agency's workforce for efficiency purposes ...
Ynys-hir from above. Ynys-hir RSPB reserve is a nature reserve of the RSPB situated beside the Dyfi estuary in Ceredigion, mid Wales between Aberystwyth and Machynlleth.The reserve covers 550 hectares and includes a variety of habitats extending inland from mudflats and salt marsh through farmland and pools to oak woodland and hillside scrub.