| Species |
Subspecies |
Description |
Roe
Capreolus capreolus (L.) |
Balkanian roe – C. capreolus grandis Bolkay, 1925[2][3][4] |
- Roe eyes are very large and black; below them are barely noticed the rest of stunted tear areas.
- The ears are relatively long and slightly tapered at the ends.
- The nose is rounded, lips black with thickened rhinarium.
- The legs are slender and thin, with black pointed hooves.
- Roe tail is black and inconspicuous.
- The body length (from the nose to the end of the fuselage) is about 130-140 cm and a maximum height of back: 70-75 cm.
- The largest specimens reach a weight up to 35 kg (usually 25-30 kg), a capital of up to 40 kg.
- In the summer roet is reddish-brown, in winter chestnut-gray.
- Buttocks covered with white hairs that form the place. Fawns are brown, speckled with white spots that disappear in the first autumn shedding.
- Females usually do not have horns, which are grawing up, but in August of the first year of life are declining, and alternate each year.
- Roe inhabited Europe (except Iceland, Ireland, Scandinavia and the Mediterranean islands), and this subspecies worships in almost the entire territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- This animal is timid, and sharpened senses. Out to pasture in the evening or early in the morning.
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Chamois
Rupicapra rupicapra (L.) |
R. rupicapra balcanica Bolkay, 1925[5] |
- Chaimon body is strong, tight, with proportionally short legs, on which the black, elastic hooves.
- The head has a timid appearance, and the nose is sharply drawn.
- Individuals of both sexes have a constant - black, straight back and suddenly bent horns (with great spikes and smaller decorative and cross-annual vertebrae). In capital chamois and reach a length of over 30 cm.
- In favorable habitat conditions, chamois grow in length up to 130 cm and height of 80 cm; tail is long and 10 cm.
- Body mass ranges from 35 to 55 kg, rarely more.
- The hair color is pale yellow to light brown, and in winter is much darker - brown to black. Face, chin and undertail areas are off-white. Around the ears, around the eyes - to mouth - extends black spot lines. Since mumps, across the ridge to the tail have dark-chestnut (almost black) line. On the back of the hair is much longer, especially during winter.
- It has a very sharp senses, perhaps the sharpest of all big game. This is especially true in the sense of hearing and smell, but vision somewhat weaker.
- It lives on high rugged mountains and mountain grasslands; summer goes up to the borders of snow and winter descends on the sites at lower altitude.
- This subspecies ( the Bosnian population) is one of the largest in Europe.
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Wild boar
Sus scrofa (L.) |
S. scrofa reiseri Bolkay, 1925[6] |
- The body is very strong, slightly flattened laterally, with markedly more developed front and upper part of the back, which is sharply down towards the tail (length 25-30 cm).
- The head is large, narrow, laterally flattened and drawn into long powerful snout (proboscis).
- Ears are short, pricked and covered with bristles.
- Relatively small eyes are positioned high and fringed long lashes.
- The biggest boars reach a length up to 2 m and a height of about 1 m.
- Capital specimens can weigh up to 250 kg. Females are smaller, and their body weight does not exceed 150 kg.
- It is very timid, with excellent developed senses of smell and hearing.
- The body is covered with coarse, harsh hair, under which (especially in winter) thick woolly hair.
- The color is variable: basically a dark gray, summer significantly lighter than in winter, when it is almost black. Cubs are yellowish-brown with two dark lateral stripes.
- Bosnian boar is widespread throughout the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a tendency of increasing population.
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Wolf
Canis lupus (L.) |
Bosnian wolf – C. lupus kurjak Bolkay, 1925[7] |
- Bosnian kurjak is the largest representative in dogs family: his body is strong, tight and muscular.
- The front part of the body (especially the neck) was particularly strong, which is why he is apparently the front end higher than the rear.
- The head is proportionally large, with big, always raised triangular ears.
- The eyes are yellow, with vertical pupils.
- It reaches a length of up to 140 cm (without the tail), and his tail is 40 cm long.
- Body mass of larger individuals is up to 55 kg.
- On the front legs has 4 and the last 5 fingers, where the strong, blunt, unretractable nails.
- The hair color is variable, depending on the season and habitat conditions. The main colors are pale gray-yellow, with dark shades, and the hair is very dense and crisp.
- Its heard his extraordinarily focused, especially the sense of sight and hearing.
- The best preserved wolf population in the southwestern part of the European range, and Bosnian wolf population is numerous and in expansion.
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Marten
Martes foina (Erxleben) |
Bosnian marten ("Samsar") – M. foina bosniaca Brass, 1911[8] |
- Bosnian marten is something smaller than minks; its length is up to 75 cm, 25 cm of which makes ornate tail. The high is about 20 cm.
- Body mass is around 1.5 to 1.7 kg.
- The hair color is adjusted to environmental conditions, and depends on the individual age. Predominantly gray-brown fur, making it slightly lighter than the beetle.
- Below the neck and the chest has anger spot "samsar-area" (as it got popular name). The undercoat is thick and her lighter.
- Plantar and fingertips are covered with hair.
- Its muzzle is often brick-red (flesh-colored).
- This (Bosnian) subspecies in almost the entire whole territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina, especially in mountainous areas of Herzegovina karst.
- The local habitat are deciduous and coniferous forests, karst garrigues and the surrounding area.
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Brown bear
Ursus arctos (L.) |
Bosnian bear – U. arctos. bosniensis Bolkay, 1925[9]
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- The largest European continental carnivore: reaches a length of 230 cm, height of 130 cm and weight up to 300 kg. Usually they are smaller.
- The body is strong and stocky, and the tail is short.
- The head is oval, short and rounded ears, small eyes.
- Its legs are relatively short and strong, with a large plantigrade soles and feet (18–25 cm long) strong claws.
- The body is covered with a relatively long, curly hair color variable, which depends on the environment, season and age of the animal. Basically prevailing grim and dark brown - to completely dark shades.
- Young bears have a sizable white crescent spot, which some retain a lifetime.
- It is very timid and men is removed, but the bitter and aggressive defending.
- It has a well-sharpened senses of sight, taste and smell.
- Good runner, swimmer and climber.
- In Europe is widespread, but in a discontinuous area - from Scandinavia , through Russia and the Carpathians to the Balkans and Iberian Peninsula .
- Bosnia's population is one of the most numerous, and in the postwar period has registered its growing up.
- The living space of this bear are large and dense mixed forests and populated areas to avoid.
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