British Mammals (Classic Reprint)
Westell, W. Percival![British Mammals (Classic Reprint)](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/259/25994033/CHSBZCOP0325994033.jpg)
Excerpt from British MammalsGreat Britain has some forty species of land mammals as against Germany's ninety and Scandinavia's sixty, while Ireland has only twenty-two. In Reptiles and Amphibians a small country like Belgium has about twenty-two species, while Great Britain has thirteen, and Ireland only four, of which none are Snakes. This extreme poverty has been accounted for by the destruction caused by the glacial epoch during Pleistocene...