Pine Marten UK - Martes martes identification

Описание: Pine Marten id and mini documentary. Native British pine martens could help save the red squirrel in the wild by hunting out the grey squirrels. The recovery of the European pine marten has been credited with reducing the population of invasive grey squirrels in the UK and Ireland.

Where the range of the expanding European pine marten population meets that of the grey squirrel, the population of the grey squirrels quickly retreats and the red squirrel population recovers. It is theorized that because the gray squirrel spends more time on the ground than the red squirrel, which co-evolved with the pine marten, they are far more likely to come in contact with this predator.

The European pine marten (Martes martes), known most commonly as the pine marten in Anglophone Europe, and less commonly also known as pineten, baum marten, or sweet marten, is an animal native to UK & Northern Europe belonging to the mustelid family, which also includes mink, otter, badger, wolverine and weasel. In the UK Sxotlnd is the best place to see this animal.

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