GLIS GLIS
GLIS GLIS
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Edible dormice are active during a six-month period and go into hibernation from roughly October to May, depending on local climatic conditions. They are mostly active in the summer and are active on average 202 min in a 24-hour day, mostly at night.They prepare a den in soft soil or hidden in a cave, and rely on fat reserves to survive through the winter. During hibernation, metabolic rate and body temperature fall dramatically, and the animal may cease breathing altogether for periods up to an hour.In years with low food availability edible dormice can hibernate longer than 11 months.
The Glis Glis was accidentally introduced to the town of Tring in England through an escape from Lionel Walter Rothschild’s private collection in 1902. As a result, the British edible dormouse population is now believed to be well over 10,000 strong. They believe that the population is concentrated in a 200-square-mile triangle between Beaconsfield, Aylesbury and Luton – an area known as the Chilterns. But this is outdated the picture above was a Glis Glis caught in the Woodcote area on the Berkshire / Oxfordshire border and they have also been caught in Watlington,Benson,Whitchurch,Pangbourne & Sonning Common