Eastern Chipmunk
A chipmunk’s cheek pouches stretch to hold many seeds at once, letting it carry dozens of sunflower seeds or several acorns back to its burrow in one trip.
Mammal
Elk (Wapiti)
A bull elk’s antlers can grow up to about 2.5 cm a day in summer, making them among the fastest-growing animal tissues.
Ethiopian Wolf
The Ethiopian wolf is the rarest wild dog in the world, with only about 500 adults left.
Eurasian Beaver
Eurasian beavers were hunted down to about 1,200 animals in the early 1900s; today there are well over a million across Europe and Asia.
Eurasian Lynx
A Eurasian lynx can kill prey three to four times its own weight, such as an adult red deer or reindeer.
Eurasian Otter
Otters mark their territories with droppings called spraints, which smell sweet, often compared to jasmine tea.
European Badger
Badgers live in underground ‘setts’ that can be used by the same family for many generations, some with dozens of entrances and hundreds of metres of tunnels.
European Bison
Every European bison alive today descends from just 12 animals kept in zoos after the species was hunted out of the wild by 1927.
European Hedgehog
A hedgehog has about 5,000–7,000 spines, and it can roll into a tight ball so that only spines face an attacker.
European Rabbit
The European rabbit is a pest across much of the world, yet it is Endangered in its native Spain and Portugal, where diseases have wiped out most of the population.