THE recent discovery of a specimen of the squirreltailed or edible dormouse (Glis glis) in Shropshire, near Ludlow (Field, Jan. 4) is an interesting example of an alien mammal that has colonized ...

That Slovenian delicacy was the edible dormouse (glis glis). The Romans loved to eat them too. They kept them in terracotta jars with wheat and honey and the little animals stuffed themselves to twice ...