A rare mammal with a trunk-like snout and webbed feet: The Iberian desman faces extinction
It is small, chubby, rat-like, an exceptional diver, with a snout in the shape of a trunk, nocturnal, and one of the great forgotten mammals of Spain’s natural world. The Iberian desman (Galemys pyrenaicus), like the Iberian lynx or the Cantabrian brown …