Small Mammals

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	Rodents are the most prolific of mammal families.  They have sharp ever growing incisor teeth and must gnaw throughout their lives to keep them in order. The Harvest Mouse, and the Porcupine are amongst the smallest and the largest.  There is a kind of rodent to fill nearly every niche and where they do not occur naturally, they have followed man, as pets and pests. Eurasian Otters are at long last beginning to make a come back to Britain.  They have long suffered from pollution and disturbance - but through protection, habitat management and captive-bred re-introductions, the good news is that Otters are returning.  At Thrigby we breed both Eurasian Otters and Asian Small Clawed Otters.	Porcupine
Asian Small Clawed Otters

Forest House

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Sense, savour and respectfully appreciate  those animals which reveal themselves to you with this house.

This is a new and evolving home designed to remind people that many animals live in a habitat and each play a part in an ecosystem. "No man is an island" wrote Dunn.  He might equally have said - "No animal in the wild lives in isolation".

Blyth's Hornbills

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Thrigby Hall Wildlife Gardens, Filby, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, NR29 3DR Tel: +44 (0)1493 369477 Fax: +44 (0)1493 368256