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Mammal pictures
Most of the photos here are courtesy of friends and acquaintances, I take this opportunity to thank them all again. All the photos have the reserved rights of each author, who has given them to be spread in this web page.
American mink
Common bent-wing bat
Barbary sheep, Ángel Cañones
Red deer in Garcia Sola lake
Wood mouse
European polecat
Rabbits are the main prey of the Iberian lynx
Red deer, Isaac Fdez Galisteo
Bechstein’s bat
Greater noctule bat
2 lynx together in winter 2024
Rabbits with myxomatosis are always an easy prey.
Lesser horseshoe bat
Egyptian mongoose
Common pipistrelle
Eurasian pigmy shrew
Algerian mouse
Spanish mole
Greater mouse-eared bat
Spanish ibex, Ángel Cañones
Greater horseshoe bat
Curious group: young male, female and calf
Daubenton’s bat
Autumn is a good time to see young specimens.
Young male of fallow deer
Common genet, Fernando Mostacero
Common genet, Fernando Mostacero
Lesser mouse-eared bat
Otter in Orellana lake
Cabrera’s vole
European snow vole
Southwestern water vole
Serotine bat
European rabbit in Don Benito
field vole
Lynx drinking water on the shore of a reservoir
Boar in the forest
Iberian hare in La Albuera
Female with cubs
Pyrenean desman
Iberian lynx female in Extremadura
Red fox hunting for voles near Badajoz
Mediterranean horseshoe bat
Lesser white-toothed shrew
European hedgehog, Alex Fabra
Etruscan shrew
Kuhl’s pipistrelle
Roe deer in Ahigal de los Aceiteros
Several fallow deers grazing peacefully
Iberian lynx photographed at a great distance
Whiskered bat
Brown long-eared bat
Two lynx cubs photographed in Extremadura in summer 2024