Common name |
Species |
Date |
Cause |
Mammoth |
Mammuthus primigenius |
12500 b.p. |
Climate |
Saiga antelope |
Saiga tatarica |
12400 b.p. |
Climate |
Arctic fox |
Alopex lagopus |
12400 b.p. |
Climate |
Lemming |
Lemmus lemmus |
10500 b.p. |
Climate |
Arctic lemming |
Dicrostonyx torquatus |
10500 b.p. |
Climate |
Narrow-headed vole |
Microtus gregalis |
10500 b.p. |
Climate |
Pika |
Ochotona pusilla
|
10000 b.p. |
Climate |
Wild horse |
Equus ferus |
9330 b.p. |
Climate |
Giant elk |
Megaloceros giganteus |
9225 b.p. |
Climate |
Reindeer |
Rangifer tarandus |
8300 b.p. |
Climate |
Wolverine |
Gulo gulo |
8000 b.p. |
Hunting |
Northern vole |
Microtus oeconomus |
3500 b.p. |
Climate |
Elk |
Alces alces |
3400 b.p. |
Hunting |
Aurochs |
Bos primigenius |
3250 b.p. |
Hunting |
Lynx |
Lynx lynx |
200 A.D. |
Hunting |
Brown bear |
Ursus arctos |
500 A.D. |
Hunting |
Beaver |
Castor fiber |
1300 A.D. |
Hunting |
Wild boar |
Sus scrofa |
1500 A.D. |
Hunting |
Wolf |
Canis lupus |
1700 A.D. |
Hunting |
Muskrat |
Ondatra zibethicus |
1935 A.D. |
Hunting |
Coypu |
Myocastor coypus |
1987 A.D. |
Hunting |
Source:
A Short History of the British Mammal Fauna (interesting read)
Alternative list by Wikipedia
- Arctic fox - c. 10000 BC
- Arctic lemming - c. 8000 BC
- Auroch - c. 1000 BC
- Boar - c. 1500 (reintroduced)
- Brown Bear - c. 1000 (may be as early as 500 BC)
- Coypu - 1987 (non-native)
- Elk - c. 1500 BC
- European Beaver - c. 1300
- Irish Elk - c. 6000 BC
- Lynx - c. 400
- Greater mouse-eared bat - 1990 (as resident)
- Muskrat - 1935 (non-native)
- Narrow-headed vole - c. 8000 BC
- Root Vole - c. 1500 BC
- Norway lemming - c. 8000 BC
- Pika - c. 8000 BC
- Reindeer - c. 6000 BC (reintroduced)
- Saiga Antelope - c. 10000 BC
- Wild horse - c. 7000 BC
- Wolf - c. 1700
- Wolverine - c. 6000 BC
- Woolly Mammoth - c. 10000 BC
- Woolly Rhinoceros -
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