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There were - and maybe still are - wallabies both on Dartmoor and in Derbyshire.  Wild boars are probably escapees, although I thought that some had been put into the New Forest deliberately, in an effort to repopulate it?  I also thought that wolves had been reintroduced somewhere? 

Unfortunately, a lot of the other creatures are the result of people either losing their displays from private zoos/collections, having them stolen and then lost, or irresponsible twits buying exotica which they then can't keep, and releasing them 'into the wild'.

I have occasionally glimpsed the odd male pervus flashitatus skulking in deep undergrowth.  It can be startled quite easily, though, and is particularly nervous if approached by men in dark blue uniforms.