mammals
Animals with backbones that give birth to live young. Twenty four species are native to Britain.
- animals,
- badger,
- bats,
- beaver (Eurasian beaver, Castor fiber),
- cattle (Bos taurus),
- deer,
- edible dormouse (Glis glis),
- elk (Alces alces ssp. alces),
- equines,
- European bison (wisent, Bison bonasus),
- goats (Capra aegagrus hircus),
- grey squirrel,
- hazel dormouse (Muscardinus avellanarius),
- otter,
- pigs (Sus spp.),
- polecat (European polecat, Mustela putorius),
- rabbit,
- red squirrel,
- sheep (Ovis aries),
- water vole,
- wildcat
This definition is abridged from A – Z of tree terms: A companion to British arboriculture.
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