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Horned goat skull

Buzzards wheeling overhead pointed the way to the carcass of this large, horned goat. It was found in a quarry off the main road opposite Kypriotianika, 2002. Horned goat skull, 25...

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Small goat skull

The goat is probably the most popular of all farm animals on Kythera. When goat’s milk is plentiful, farm wives make the delicious soft cheese called mizithra, by stirring the boil...

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Baby Bat

A strange and wonderful flying mammal, the bat hunts at night for mosquitoes and other insects. This poor little baby was found dried up after the winter in a home in Agia Pelagia....

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Cat Skull

Cat skull, front view. 8.5 cm. Fratsia 1993. Photograph © Peter B. Tzannes, 2003

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Cat Skull, side view

The domestic short-haired cat is still quite common in Kytherian villages, but as people take them indoors as pets, the numbers of semi-wild farm cats seem to be dwindling. They ar...

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