European edible dormouse
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The European edible dormouse, also known as the European dormouse or European fat dormouse, is a large dormouse and one of only two living species in the genus Glis, found in most of Europe and parts
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A juvenile European edible dormouse
A house in Tring, Hertfordshire, England, damaged by a fire attributed to Glis glis in 2015
Edible dormouse in a cellar
Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, Baron de Rothschild, was a British banker, politician, zoologist, and soldier, who was a member of the Rothschild family. As a Zionist leader, he was pr
European edible dormouse
…pindicus. A small, isolated population of Glis glis also exists in southeast England. At the turn of the 20th century, the British banker and zoologist Lionel Walter Rothschild kept Glis glis in his private collection in the town of Tring in Hertfordshire; in 1902 some of the animals escaped and reproduced, establishing…
Walter Rothschild
Rothschild with his famed zebra (Equus quagga) carriage, which he drove to Buckingham Palace to demonstrate the tame character of zebras to the public
Rothschild caricatured by Spy for Vanity Fair, 1900
Bookplate designed by Charles William Sherborn