English Mammals
England is home to a number of amazing mammals in a variety of habitats.
English woodlands have long been filled with foxes and deer. Both have been hunted until changes in the law in recent years outlawed hunting wiith dogs.
Badgers are a rare sight but many farmers advocate culling them to keep down incidents of the disease Bovine Tuberculosis in their cattle herds.
English moorlands are alive with leaping hares in the springtime.The hare is a native species while his cousin the rabbit is not. Rabbits were introduced in by the Normans.
Otters are seen on the English riverbanks along with the tiny water vole, made famous as Ratty (along with Mole, Badger and Mr Toad) in that English literary classic "The Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame.
The Red Squirrel is an endangered species in sharp decline.