BAC25502 2000. Watercolour and gouache on Arches paper, 185 x 235mm, framed, signed and dated by artist.<P> Last Record: 1962. Distribution: Italian and Bavarian Alps, Europe. The voles are among the most successful of all mammals. There are sixty-five species, distributed throughout Europe, northern and central Asia and North America. The Bavarian pine-vole was found at elevations of between 600 and 1000 metres in the districts of Garmisch-Partenkirschen in the Bavarian Alps and in the Tyrol, Italy. It differed from the common pine-vole in its chromosomes and aspects of its skull and teeth. The moist meadow that formed its only known habitat was destroyed by construction of a hospital during the 1980s. No specimen has been collected since 1962, and just twenty-three specimens reside in museums around the world. $650.00AUD
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