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Extinct UK mammals

Post by Tero » Sat Dec 10, 2011 7:05 pm

Way to go! Island was completely civilized by 1000!
Extinct species

Mammals
Steppe lemming – c. 8000 BC
Arctic lemming – c. 8000 BC
Aurochs – c. 1000 BC
Beech Marten – 19th century
Brown Bear – c. 1000 (may be as early as 500 BC)
Cave Lion – c. 10,000 BC
Coypu – 1987 (non-native)
Gray whale – c. 500 BC
Gray wolf- c. 1700 AD
Irish Elk – c. 6000 BC
Eurasian Lynx – c. 400
Greater mouse-eared bat – 1990 (as resident)
Narrow-headed vole – c. 8000 BC
Root Vole – c. 1500 BC
Pika – c. 8000 BC
Saiga Antelope – c. 10,000 BC
Tarpan – c. 7000 BC
Walrus – c. 1000 BC
Wisent – c. 3000 BC
Wolverine – c. 6000 BC
Woolly Mammoth – c. 10,000 BC
Woolly Rhinoceros – c. 10,000 BC

I refuse to live on a land mass that does not support large carnivores.

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Post by Thinking Aloud » Sat Dec 10, 2011 7:08 pm

I saw a gray whale up near the Stone Circle just yesterday. It was grazing quite peacefully.

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Post by Tero » Sat Dec 10, 2011 7:15 pm

Must tell wiki.
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Post by JacksSmirkingRevenge » Sat Dec 10, 2011 8:13 pm

Yeah, we regularly get mammoths straying into our garden to nibble on the croquet hoops.
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sat Dec 10, 2011 8:53 pm

"Gray wolf- c. 1700 AD" :cry:
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Post by Svartalf » Mon Dec 12, 2011 11:49 pm

Women, I hear they have been replaced by alien, silicon based, lifeforms.
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Tue Dec 13, 2011 12:25 am

Svartalf wrote:Women, I hear they have been replaced by alien, silicon based, lifeforms.
I don't thing Rachel has a bit of silicon.
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Post by Svartalf » Tue Dec 13, 2011 12:28 am

neither is she UK, even if she's there currently.
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Tue Dec 13, 2011 12:34 am

Svartalf wrote:neither is she UK, even if she's there currently.
"replaced" :coffee:
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Post by HomerJay » Tue Dec 13, 2011 12:46 am

We had hippos to, remains found in the caves we'll visit at the next nottingham meet. No mention of hippos? I guess they're not extinct? :think:

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Post by apophenia » Tue Dec 13, 2011 3:59 am




Bond. James Bond.

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Post by Berthold » Tue Dec 13, 2011 12:32 pm

HomerJay wrote:We had hippos to, remains found in the caves we'll visit at the next nottingham meet. No mention of hippos? I guess they're not extinct? :think:
The list goes back only to the beginning of the Holocene. If I recall correctly, the hippos lived during a somewhat earlier warm interval of the Pleistocene.

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