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THE extension of war into Yugoslav territory takes it into an area of the south-eastern Europe fauna and flora which had only begun to be properly explored by biologists within modern times. The British Museum expedition of 1937 collected four species of Clitellus (susliks or gophers) in Yugoslavia (Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., May 1940), two of which were new to science, Clitellus c. haramani (named in honour of Dr. Stanka Karaman, explorer of Macedonian fauna), from Karadjica Mountains, Macedonia, and Clitellus c. laskeri (named after Prof. V. Laskarer, of the University of Belgrade). Slovenia contains abundant chamois, red and roe deer, bear, wild boar and even lynx, while its avi-fauna includes capercaillie and stone partridge, mostly protected by the 1931 game laws. Spoonbills nest abundantly on the Obekska Bara bird reservation near Belgrade. In the Knez Mihaileva region buzzards and eagles are still well established, while magpies and jays from the Belgrade suburbs have frequently been observed passing over the city.
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Yugoslav Fauna and Flora. Nature 147, 475–476 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147475c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/147475c0