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Extinct animals of medieval Britain

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Big Cat Sightings - Is That the Origin of Them?

The mediaeval people were very interested in their hell hounds. And usually, sort of horrible villains in stories quite often get hunted down by packs of hell hounds across across moors and things like that. We have a record of a lynx in the tower of london at one point, in the menagerie there. So wee got the wild cat, which is still just about holding on. And we've got the lynx, which went extinct a while ago, although not so long as people think. A, we've also got the house cat, which was a which was looking after, looking after the rodent situation. Nd, peoples an settle around human settlements,

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