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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.
Greater white-toothed shrew
Greater horseshoe bat
Common bent-wing bat
European wildcat
Grey long-eared bat
Barbary sheep, Ángel Cañones
Roe deer in Ahigal de los Aceiteros
Young mouflon in Alia
Rabbits with myxomatosis are always an easy prey.
Roe deer in Ahigal de los Aceiteros
European snow vole
Greater mouse-eared bat
Young Iberian lynx cub
Wood mouse
Greater noctule bat
2 lynx together in winter 2024
Lusitanian pine vole
Southwestern water vole
Iberian lynx photographed at a great distance
Autumn is a good time to see young specimens.
Spanish ibex male
Whiskered bat
Cabrera’s vole
Iberian hare in La Albuera
Mediterranean pine vole, Alfonso Roldán Losada
Badger
Mouflons, Ángel Cañones
Iberian shrew
Several fallow deers grazing peacefully
Female with cubs
Red fox hunting for voles near Badajoz
Serotine bat
Spanish mole
Common genet, Fernando Mostacero
Curious group: young male, female and calf
European rabbit in Don Benito
Lesser white-toothed shrew
Pair of lynxes about to mate in December
Garden dormouse, Ángel Cañones
Otter in Orellana lake
Lynx drinking water on the shore of a reservoir
Summer is a good moment to watch lynx cubs
Two lynx cubs photographed in Extremadura in summer 2024
Beech marten
Red deer, Isaac Fdez Galisteo
Lesser mouse-eared bat
Young male of fallow deer
Geoffroy’s bat
Western barbastelle, Ján Svetlík
European polecat
Kuhl’s pipistrelle
Spanish ibex, Ángel Cañones
European hedgehog, Alex Fabra
Brown long-eared bat
Egyptian mongoose
Mediterranean horseshoe bat
Lesser horseshoe bat
House mouse
Egyptian mongoose in Badajoz
Pyrenean desman
Weasel
Boar in the forest
Iberian lynx in Campiña Sur (december 2024)
Common pipistrelle
Rabbits are the main prey of the Iberian lynx
Daubenton’s bat
field vole
Algerian mouse
Eurasian pigmy shrew
Deer rut, one of the great attractions of this activity