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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: European Beaver, European Rabbit, Mediterranean Monk Seal, European Water Vole, Wood Mouse, Hazel Dormouse, Common Vole, Common Shrew, Lesser Noctule, European Hedgehog, Harvest Mouse, Nathusius's Pipistrelle, Edible Dormouse, Greater Mouse-Eared Bat, Barbastelle, Eurasian Pygmy Shrew, Parti-Coloured Bat, Bechstein's Bat, Bank Vole, Whiskered Bat, European Mole, Eurasian Water Shrew, Brandt's Bat, Lesser White-Toothed Shrew, Soprano Pipistrelle, Field Vole, Grey Long-Eared Bat, Dinosaurs of Romania. Excerpt: The European beaver or Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) is a species of beaver, which was once widespread in Eurasia, where it has been hunted both for fur and for castoreum, a secretion of its scent gland believed to have medicinal properties. It still occurs as far as China and Mongolia. The fur colour of European beavers varies geographically. Light, chestnut-rust is the dominant colour in Belarus. In Russia, the beavers of the Sozh River basin are predominantly blackish brown, while beavers in the Voronezh Reserve are equally distributed between brown and blackish-brown. European beavers on average weigh 18 kg, the largest specimen on record having weighed 31.7 kg. Although superficially similar to the North American beaver, there are several important differences. European beavers tend to be bigger, with larger, less rounded heads, longer, narrower muzzles, thinner, shorter, and lighter underfur, narrower, less oval-shaped tails, and have shorter shin bones, making them less capable of bipedal locomotion than the North American species. European beavers have longer nasal bones than their American cousins, with the widest point being at the end of the snout for the former, and in the middle for the latter. The nasal opening for the Eur... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=890238