the real risk isn't very great, but you should always bear in mind the mortality rate tolerable for a population of wild turtles is much higher than we accept for
Spencer and his workmates blame the losses on continuing nest predation(捕食) by foxes, accompanied by other problems, including a worse and worse environment and serious drought(干旱) in the 2000s. “We have known about the sudden sharp drop of the population of the turtles for tens of ...
Wild geese have to range further when food is scarce during the harsh winter months and here in the UK, geese will often move further south when the winter is particularly cold. I photographed these geese on a village green in Norfolk. They are a mixture of wild greylag and domestic geese...
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Hedgehog presence/absence surveys were carried out in the back gardens of private households in the town of Reading, UK (51°, 27′ N and 0°, 58′ W; population >230,000; and area >60 km2) and its outskirts from 18 November 2017–7 April 2018. Badgers and foxes (Vulpes vulpes) wh...