11.   Stages in the formation and modification of small mammal bone assemblages.

12.   The small mammals alive at this time did not hibernate, but had insulating fur and could burrow underground.

13.   The study of small mammal fossils Fossils provide one of our most direct links with the prehistoric past.

14.   The Westbury sediments are middle Pleistocene in age with numerous small mammal faunas in different parts of the breccia sequences.

15.   They are nocturnal and live on leaves, insects, small mammals and birds.

16.   They do not, however, collect bone, and they mostly gnaw larger pieces of bone rather than small mammal bone.

17.   This is probably a comparatively rare occurrence for small mammals, but it certainly does occur.

18.   What ever the bone type, however, Dodson found that very low water velocities were sufficient to move small mammal bones.

19.   Its population mirrors that of its prey species -- mice, voles and other small mammals.

20.   Poisoned wheat is put inside the holder which is designed to let in grey squirrels and exclude other small mammals.