Editing Corfu (section)

====Mammals====
Around 40 species of mammals live on the island and in the sea around it. [[Fin whale]]s, [[sperm whale]]s, [[Cuvier's beaked whale]]s, [[common bottlenose dolphin]]s, [[short-beaked common dolphin]]s, [[striped dolphin]]s and [[Risso's dolphin]]s are the regularly present cetaceans.<ref>Frantzis, A. 2009: Cetaceans in Greece: Present status of knowledge. Initiative for the Conservation of Cetaceans in Greece.</ref> [[Mediterranean monk seal|Monk seals]] appear from time to time without breeding there anymore. [[Eurasian otter]]s still survive in the lagoons and streams of Corfu.<ref>Ruiz-Olmo, J. 2006: The Otter (Lutra lutra L.) on Corfu Island (Greece): Situation in 2006. IUCN Otter Spec. Group Bull. 23: 17-25.</ref><ref name="Stilles et Gasteratos 2021 a">Stille, M., Gasteratos, I. & B. Stille 2021: Larger mammals of Corfu, Ionian Islands, Greece – status and potential threats. Russian Journal of Theriology 20(2): 204-214.</ref><ref>Roberts, G. 2022: Otter survey of the island of Corfu 2021. OTTER, Journal of the International Otter Survival Fund 2022: 39-42.</ref> The [[European jackal|golden jackal]] was very common till the 1960s, but after persecution it became extinct, with the last individuals observed in the first half of the 1990s.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Masseti |first=M. |year=2010 |title=Homeless mammals from the Ionian and Aegean islands |journal=Bonn Zoological Bulletin |volume=57 |issue=2 |pages=367–373}}</ref><ref>Gasteratos, I. & Z. Fondoulakou 2018: [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328723727_The_presence_and_the_extinction_of_the_Golden_Jackal_Canis_aureus_from_the_Island_of_Corfu_northwestern_Greece The presence and the extinction of the Golden Jackal ''Canis aureus'' from the Island of Corfu, northwestern Greece.] Conference: 2nd International Jackal Symposium: Marathon, Greece.</ref> Recent sightings indicate a recolonization effort from the nearby mainland.<ref name="Stilles et Gasteratos 2021 a" /> [[Wild boar]]s were exterminated after 2000, after farmers complained about crop damage, but at the moment they recolonized Corfu, swimming from the mainland.<ref name="Stilles et Gasteratos 2021 a" /> [[Red fox]]es, [[beech marten]]s, [[least weasel]]s, [[European hare]]s, [[northern white-breasted hedgehog]]s are quite widespread, as some of the smaller mammals like the [[European edible dormouse]], the [[hazel dormouse]], the [[house mouse]], the [[yellow-necked mouse]], the [[western broad-toothed field mouse]], the [[wood mouse]], the [[lesser white-toothed shrew]], the [[etruscan shrew]], as well as several species of bats.<ref name="Stilles et Gasteratos 2021 a" /><ref>Hanák, V., Benda, P., Ruedi, M., Horacek, I. & T.S. Sofianidou 2001: Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) of Eastern Mediterranean. Part 2. New records and review of distribution of bats in Greece. Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae 65: 279-346.</ref><ref>Life GRECABAT: Κατάλογος σπηλαίων με εποχές παρουσίας σημαντικών αποικιών (accessed in: 28/4/2021).</ref> [[Coypu]]s, [[fallow deer]], [[red deer]], [[Indian crested porcupine]]s, [[Siberian chipmunk]]s and [[raccoon]]s have been observed recently, but they are escapees and only the coypu and the raccoon have established viable populations.<ref>Stille, M., Gasteratos, I. & B. Stille 2021: Alien and invasive terrestrial vertebrate species on Corfu, Ionian Islands, Greece. Journal of Vertebrate Biology 70(1): 1-13.</ref><ref name="Stilles et Gasteratos 2021 a" />