Mammals
The arctic fox , which feeds almost exclusively on birds, was the only land mammal in Iceland when the first settlers arrived. Common throughout Iceland, they're chubbier than European foxes, with short, rounded ears, bushy tail, and a coat that turns white in winter. Polar bears have never flourished here, though every decade one or two float over on ice floes from Greenland, only to be shot as a dangerous pest by the first person who sees them. Domestic animals arrived with the Vikings. The Icelandic horse is a unique breed descended from medieval Norwegian stock, as none have been imported since the tenth century. Cattle numbers are fairly low, but sheep outnumber the human population by four to one. Reindeer were introduced from Norway and Finland in the late seventeenth century for hunting purposes - today they're restricted to eastern Iceland, where they stick to high altitude pasture in summer, descending to coastal areas in winter. Iceland's cold climate has limited the spread of smaller vermin such as rats and mice , which were unintentionally brought in on boats and only occur around human habitations; escaped rabbits have recently established themselves around Reykjavik and on Heimaey, however. Minks have also broken out of fur farms and seem to be surviving in the wild, much to the detriment of native birdlife. Offshore, Iceland has a number of whale species. Traditionally, their valuable meat, bones and teeth were most frequently obtained from washed-up corpses, and battles were even fought over the rights to their carcasses until commercial whaling fired up in the nineteenth century. A decade-long moratorium on hunting ended in 1999, though numbers remain high for the time being and you've a good chance to see some if you put to sea. Most common are a couple of species of dolphin and the five-metre-long pilot whale , but there are also substantial numbers of far larger fin whales, sei whales and minke whales , all of which feed by straining plankton from sea water through moustache-like baleen plates inside their mouths. Far less common are orca (also known as killer whales), square-headed sperm whales , and blue whales , which reach 30m in length and are the largest known animal in history. Grey and harbour seals are found in Iceland, with the biggest numbers seen around the north coast and off the Westman Islands. Both seal species are also hunted, despite being depicted as almost human in Icelandic folktales, appearing as "were-seals" who have human families on land and seal families in the sea. According to these stories, if you walk along a beach and find a seal following you out from shore, it may be looking to see if you're one of its children.
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