It lives on meadows and fields of Europe and Middle Asia, it is protected in Poland. Feeds on earthworms, insects' grubs, small invertebrates, which localises thanks to its sensitive hearing and whiskers on snout and tale. It builds underground nest witch moss and grass. It gathers living and immobilised earthworms (with skilfully cut ganglion) in the pantry.

Once this cat was quite common in all of Europe. By the middle of the 19th century, it had become extinct in most countries of Central and Western Europe. Recently, there have been successful attempts to reintroduce lynx to forests (GNU Free Documentation License).

This is a North American member of the Mustelidae family found in Alaska, Canada and most of the United States. Since the 50s of the 20th century it has occur also in Europe, where it was brought as the fur-bearing animal. Wild populations of that species, originated by individuals which had run away from the husbandry or had been released by ecological activists, live on Iceland, Scandinavian countries, Great Britain, Spain, France, Germany, Poland and part of Russia.

Those common, sometimes even met on the streets of Polish cities and those, which can be fund a little bit to exotic for our country. All placed in the one gallery of Lukasz Lukasik amaze with its natural charm.

The European ground squirrel (Spermophilus citellus) is also known as the European Souslik. It grows to a length of approximately 20 cm and a weight of between 200 and 400 g. In Poland the European ground squirrel became extinct in 1970s and 1980s, however its population is being successfully reintroduced.