Editing Crete (section)

====Mammals====
{{Main|Mammals of Greece}}

Mammals of Crete include the vulnerable [[kri-kri]], ''Capra aegagrus cretica'' that can be seen in the national park of the [[Samaria Gorge]] and on [[Thodorou]],<ref>{{cite web|author=Αναρτήθηκε από admin |url=http://to-pio.blogspot.gr/2011/11/blog-post_22.html |title=ΤΟΠΙΟ: Θοδωρού, η άγνωστη νησίδα του Βενετικού ναυτικού οχυρού, των κρι-κρι και η απαγόρευση προσέγγισης |publisher=To-pio.blogspot.gr |access-date=26 March 2013}}</ref> [[Dia (island)|Dia]] and [[Agioi Pantes]] (islets off the north coast), the [[Cretan wildcat]] and the [[Cretan spiny mouse]].<ref name=tho>[http://www.explorecrete.com/crete-west/EN-Thodorou.html Thodorou Islands off Platanias] ExploreCrete.com</ref><ref>[https://archive.today/20130120041646/http://www.cretanbeaches.com/en/fauna-of-crete/mammals-of-crete/624-cretan-ibex-capra-aegagrus-creticus.html Cretan Ibex, by Alexandros Roniotis] CretanBeaches.com</ref><ref>[http://www.cretanbeaches.com/en/fauna-of-crete/mammals-of-crete/929-cretan-wildcat-felis-silvestris-cretensis.html Cretan wildcat] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110211151554/http://www.cretanbeaches.com/en/fauna-of-crete/mammals-of-crete/929-cretan-wildcat-felis-silvestris-cretensis.html |date=11 February 2011 }} CretanBeaches.com</ref><ref>[https://archive.today/20120908021709/http://www.cretanbeaches.com/en/fauna-of-crete/mammals-of-crete/932-crete-spiny-mouse-acomys-minous.html Cretan spiny mouse] CretanBeaches.com</ref> Other terrestrial mammals include subspecies of the Cretan marten, the Cretan weasel, the Cretan badger, the Cretan wildcat,<ref>{{cite web |date=13 February 2023 |title=Fauna and Flora of Crete |url=https://www.crete.org.uk/animals-fauna.html}}</ref> the [[long-eared hedgehog]], and the [[edible dormouse]].<ref>[http://www.cretanbeaches.com/en/fauna-of-crete/mammals-of-crete.html Terrestrial mammals of Crete] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110207014141/http://www.cretanbeaches.com/en/fauna-of-crete/mammals-of-crete.html |date=7 February 2011 }} CretanBeaches.com</ref>

The [[Cretan shrew]], a type of [[white-toothed shrew]] is considered [[endemic species|endemic]] to the island of Crete because this species of shrew is unknown elsewhere. It is a [[relic species]] of the ''Crocidura'' shrews of which [[fossil]]s have been found that can be dated to the [[Pleistocene]] era. Today it can only be found in the highlands of Crete.<ref>{{cite book |title=Atlas of terrestrial mammals of the Ionian and Aegean islands |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y4J0Hzo0o4gC&pg=PA43 |publisher=De Gruyter |page=43|isbn = 9783110254587|date = 30 October 2012}}</ref> It is considered to be the only surviving remnant of the endemic species of the Pleistocene Mediterranean islands.<ref>{{cite book |title=Evolution of Island Mammals |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JmSsNuwMAxgC&pg=PT35 |publisher=Wiley |page=35|isbn = 9781444391282|date = 14 February 2011}}</ref>

Bat species include: [[Blasius's horseshoe bat]], the [[lesser horseshoe bat]], the [[greater horseshoe bat]], the [[lesser mouse-eared bat]], [[Geoffroy's bat]], the [[whiskered bat]], [[Kuhl's pipistrelle]], the [[common pipistrelle]], [[Savi's pipistrelle]], the [[serotine bat]], the [[long-eared bat]], [[Schreibers' bat]] and the [[European free-tailed bat]].<ref name=icw>[http://www.intocrete.net/features/wildlife.asp Wildlife on Crete] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231003150811/https://www.intocrete.net/features/wildlife.asp |date=3 October 2023 }} IntoCrete.com</ref>

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File:Kri-kri 1.jpg|The [[kri-kri]] (the Cretan ibex) lives in protected natural parks at the gorge of Samaria and the island of Agios Theodoros.
File:Male Cretan ibex.jpg|Male Cretan ibex
File:Kritikos Lagonikos 02.jpg|[[Cretan Hound]] or ''Kritikos Lagonikos'', one of Europe's oldest hunting dog breeds
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