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There’s a bear! There’s a bear!

10,000 Birds

About a quarter of the world’s Brown Bears live in Europe (including the Russian part of it), some 55,000, divided into nine separate and evermore fragmented populations – some of them dangerously tiny, a dozen or two dozen animals only. inhabitants per km², mainly livestock farmers. After all, bears are solitary and elusive animals.

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Linkwood Distillery: 15 Years Old Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky

10,000 Birds

For starters, the official national animal is the unicorn, a fairy-tale beast chosen by Scottish royalty in the Middle Ages for its reputation as the natural enemy of the lion, the adopted mascot of English kings. Swans swim on a small pond on the distillery grounds and deer and otters can be found by a trail that runs beside the burn.

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Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge

10,000 Birds

Pronghorn Antelope populations once exceeded 30 million animals, but by the turn of the century, was down to just a few small bands. The combination of over hunting, and the native animals susceptibility to diseases carried by domestic livestock that were allowed to graze there, completely eliminated these Bighorns by 1915.

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