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There’s a bear! There’s a bear!

10,000 Birds

In the most of Europe, Brown Bear is a mythical creature that lives only in mediaeval tapestries and folk tales. inhabitants per km², mainly livestock farmers. The cuisine was magnificent, especially lamb. It has become extinct, one may say, but such formulation hides the gruesome fact: it has been exterminated. Not at all.

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10,000 Birds

A somewhat more credible selection to be sure, as lions actually do exist, but one that sadly snubs the native Scottish wildcat in favor of a felid that’s been extinct in Europe since antiquity. Eagle and Lamb by John James Audubon (1785-1851).

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