Wait, what?? Muntjacs in England? I’m so confused…We have loads of muntjacs around us in Southern EnglandI love seeing them when I walk my dog or even just walking around town at dusk. They thrive here for some reason. Well, no predators - that's a good reason! Beautiful and strange tiny deer.
What is Your Favorite Animal? Do You Think That it Will Fit in the Game?
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Yeah! It's bizarre, they are an invasive species that the english bought over during their awful evil colonnial times, where they stole everything from everyone, including some feral deer apparently!
And they absolutely love it here. See them probably on a weekly basis!
Interesting. Man they brought animals everywhere. You should see my North American bird feeder filled with European House Sparrows
This is the wildlife where I live -
www.greatfen.org.uk
Mammals | The Great Fen
There are many different types of mammals, expand your knowledge on these species you can find at The Great fen.
www.greatfen.org.uk
There is so many deer species that shouldn't be here, even up in Scotland the abundance of sika deer cross breeding with red deer has led to very few pure red deer left on the mainland.
Huh, I didn't know that they interbred. That's a shame abt the red deer, they are such a Scottish icon, I love seeing them up there. Majestic
We have them come into our garden quite frequently - most we've ever had is three at once.
Interbreeding is often just as bad as comptition with related species. The mallard duck for example not only can survive in a literally puddle of dirty water, they can also produce fertile offspring with 63 other species of duck, which is often estimated to be an even worse pressure on those other species as they tend to assimilate back into the mallards
Mallards be like to other ducks:
We are the Mallards. Existence, as you know it, is over. Your biological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Your species will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile
Me: pulls out a bazooka Make me, [INSERT SWEAR WORD OF YOUR CHOICE HERE].
It’s why the Scottish population of European wildcats is now considered possibly extinct in the wild
Is the Scottish population a subspecies or just European wildcats in Scotland?
Just a population most likly, like the florida panther, but leave it to scientists to argue about it, for us it doesnt matter anyways.
If we get the european wild cat they hopefully have learned from their past mistakes and will give us simply the general species
No, I was asking because, if the Scottish population is endangered, couldn't people get the mainland population and bring some to Scotland? I know easier said than done, but y'all get my thinking, right?
It’s now considered a morphologically distinct subpopulation. They don’t want to lose the ‘Scottish’ traits so won’t introduce mainland populations directly into their territory (instead using captivity bred animals to bolster the population - unsuccessfully I may add). However, in the south of England (Devon I believe), they are discussing reintroducing mainland wildcats.
I think that it's a bit silly to avoid this. In many cases, subpopulations behave very similar, if not looking exactly the same. But, it is what it is, I guess
The highland wildlife park is releasing cats into the wild which in the early stages is successful, its going to take a long time to get a self sustaining population though as some of the captive releases have died within weeks. The wildlife park had a pure Scottish Wildcat population already I believe.
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If can pick only one to be My favourite, then my favourite animal that isn't and/or yet to be in Planet Zoo will be this: African leopard. Guess why?
It’s probably pointless to reintroduce any wildcats to the highlands unless they eradicate the existing population or implement strict cat ownership laws (like how in some parts of Australia cats aren’t allowed outside)
Because they're beautiful animals?