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On 20 October Mammal Society Chair, Professor Fiona Mathews, will be running her first ever marathon!    Fiona will be running the Amsterdam Marathon to raise much needed funds for the Mammal Society. All money raised will go towards helping to fund ongoing Mammal Society activities (including monitoring, advising, and providing training), all of which… 

Hi, Emily again 🙂 This week I have decided to write about weasels. They are our smallest carnivore and widespread throughout Britain, but absent from most off-shore islands and Ireland. Being so widespread, it is perhaps unsurprising that they are found in a wide range of habitats. These range from urban areas, marshes, woodland, lowland pasture… 

Like most small children growing up in the early 1960s (and other children to this day, of course) I was fascinated by dinosaurs but I don’t ever recall giving that much thought to their bones.  Artists’ impressions of their reconstructed bodies filled the children’s reference books that I devoured, alongside other books on more contemporary… 

Think sun, think stones, think seals, think the beaches of Sussex! Over the weekend the Mammal Society and Brighton Dolphin Project joined forces and took to the Sussex coastline to spread the word about the local marine mammals: grey seals and common seals. In particular we wanted to let people know that their local shores… 

Water shrew (Neomys fodiens)     Hi Emily here again 🙂 . This week I have decided to focus on a very unusual creature and one of Britain’s least known mammals – the water shrew (Neomys fodiens). This species is so unusual as its able to secrete a mild toxin into its saliva. This venomous saliva… 

Eurasian Beaver (Castor fiber)   Hi, My name is Emily and I am the new volunteer for the walk this waterway survey for the Mammal Society.  For my first post,  I have decided to focus on one of my personal favourite mammals found on some waterways in the UK – the Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber)…. 

Roe Deer (Capreolus capreolus)   The roe deer is small, reddish brown in the summer, and grey in the winter. It has a distinctive black moustache stripe and a white chin. Roe deer are widespread through Scotland and much of England. They are increasing in range but are not yet established in most of the…