<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (May 2013) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> This is a list of extinct animals of the British Isles . Only a small number of these are globally extinct, most famously the Irish elk, great auk and woolly mammoth . Most of the remainder survive to some extent outside the islands . The list includes introduced species only in cases where they were able to form self - sustaining colonies for a time . Only species extinct since Great Britain was separated from mainland Europe are included . The date beside each species is the last date when a specimen was observed in the wild or, where this is not known, the approximate date of extinction . The list is complete for mammals, reptiles, freshwater fish and amphibians . </P> <Ul> <Li> Arctic lemming--c. 8000 BC </Li> <Li> Arctic fox - c. (unknown) </Li> <Li> † Eurasian aurochs--c. 1000 BC </Li> <Li> Barbary macaque - c. 30,000 BC </Li> <Li> † Cave bear--c. 15,000 BC </Li> <Li> Coypu--1978 (nonnative) </Li> <Li> Elk Alces alces </Li> <Li> Eurasian beaver--1526 (reintroduced) </Li> <Li> Eurasian brown bear--c. 1000 AD </Li> <Li> Eurasian lynx--c . AD 400 </Li> <Li> Grey whale--c. 598 BC </Li> <Li> Eurasian wolf--AD 1680 in Britain, AD 1786 in Ireland </Li> <Li> † Irish elk--c. 6000 BC </Li> <Li> Narrow - headed vole--c. 8000 BC </Li> <Li> Steppe pika--c. 8000 BC </Li> <Li> Root vole--c. 1500 BC </Li> <Li> Saiga antelope--c. 10,000 BC </Li> <Li> Steppe lemming--c. 8000 BC </Li> <Li> † Tarpan--c. 7000 BC </Li> <Li> Walrus--c. 1000 BC (Occasional Visitor) </Li> <Li> Wild Boar--c. 1400 (Reintroduced) </Li> <Li> Wisent--c. 3000 BC </Li> <Li> Wolverine--c. 6000 BC </Li> <Li> † Woolly mammoth--c. 10,000 BC </Li> <Li> † Woolly rhinoceros--c. 10,000 BC </Li> <Li> † Cave lion--c. 10,000 BC </Li> <Li> † Scimitar cat - c. 30,000 BC </Li> <Li> † Cave hyena - c. 11,000 BC </Li> <Li> † European jaguar - c. (unknown) </Li> <Li> † European Ice Age leopard - c. 24,000 BC </Li> <Li> † European gazelle - c. (unknown) </Li> </Ul> <Li> Arctic lemming--c. 8000 BC </Li>

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