Editing Lundy (section)

====Mammals====
[[File:Sikadeerlundy.jpg|thumb|[[Sika deer]]]]
Lundy is home to an unusual range of introduced mammals, including a distinct breed of wild pony, the [[Lundy pony]], as well as [[Soay sheep]] (''Ovis aries''), [[sika deer]] (''Cervus nippon''), feral [[goat]]s (''Capra aegagrus hircus''), and [[European rabbit]], some of which are [[Melanism|melanistic]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Timmermans |first1=Martijn |last2=Elmi |first2=Hanna |last3=Kett |first3=Stephen |title=Black rabbits on Lundy: Tudor treaures or post-war phonies? |date=2018 |journal=Journal of the Lundy Field Society |url= https://repository.mdx.ac.uk/download/fec81ca0e7ad1530523bc12b035f00ed1a2c474f093087a6b8ca99f75ec9e603/4959725/LFSJournal2018-Rabbits.pdf |issue=6 |access-date=9 February 2024}}</ref>

Other mammals which have made the island their home include the [[grey seal]] (''Halichoerus grypus'') and the [[Eurasian pygmy shrew]] (''Sorex minutus''). Until their elimination in 2006, in order to protect the nesting seabirds, Lundy was one of the few places in the UK where the [[black rat]] (''Rattus rattus'') could be found regularly.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.hows.org.uk/inter/birds/exotics/gbm.htm |title=British Isles Exotic and Introduced Mammals |publisher=World of European Exotic and Introduced Species |access-date=15 September 2012}}</ref>