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Fur and Fangs rather than Feathers and Beaks

10,000 Birds

Above is a buck with antlers in velvet , while the animal below has clean antlers A Muntjac on the run. England’s Muntjac are all descended from a small number of animals released by the 11th Duke of Bedford in his park at Woburn, in Bedfordshire, in the early years of the 20th century. Now an endangered animal in Britain.

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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

10,000 Birds

People have moved useful plants and animals around with them as long as they had the wit to do so. They took dogs to Australia, chickens across the Pacific, rabbits to England, horses to the New World, and then brought potatoes back. But hedgehogs? Brush-tailed Possums were brought from Australia to help start a fur industry.