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There are many animal
species on the island, some of which not
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| Un cinghiale
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found elsewhere. But on the
contrary many other species of animals quite common on the Italian
territory are absent in Sardinia; for example animals as bears,
beavers, vipers, squirrels, wolves and badgers among others are
not present on the island. Many of the animals populating Sardinia
have the peculiarity of a smaller size in comparison with the correspondent
species of the continent. One of
the most characteristic animals of the Sardinia is the mouflon,
a wild ovine with large curved hornes. Also the the wild
boar is quite common
in the wide areas covered by the typical Mediterranean scrub and
particularly in the nature reserves;
also this specie is considerably
smaller than the common wild boar of the maremma, as you can see
in the picture. Among
the symbol animals of Sardinia there is the donkey
and particularly we have to point out the albino donkey of Asinara,
that you can find only on that island.
Walking on Capo Falcone you can run
into the marginata tortoise,
one small tortoise whose max. length is about 40
cm.) or into a hare,
quite common
here also near to the built-up areas. It will
be on the contrary much more difficult to see a wild
cat, present in the nature reserves of
Capo Falcone, but in few exemplars, or a fox present here as well
as in other parks and mounts of Sardinia. Besides we have to point
out also the weasel
and the dormouse
among the species of this area.
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In the few Sardinian woods with high trees it
is possible to find few martens,
that unfortunately find not suitable most of the Sardinian habitat
made mainly of scrub vegetation.
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