Ten facts about badgers
1. The lower jaw of the badger is articulated to the upper by means of a transverse condyle firmly locked into a long cavity of the cranium. This enables the badger to maintain its hold with the utmost tenacity.
2. Some badgers are solitary, moving from home to home, while others are known to form clans.
3. Contrary to popular misconception, adult badgers do not appear to have any natural predators across their range.
4. In fact, badgers are capable of fighting off much larger animals such as wolves, coyotes and bears.
5. Badgers are primarily nocturnal because their prey only comes to the surface at night.
6. Badgers rarely drink; instead they obtain most of their water from their food.
7. Badgers are popular in English fiction.
8. In many areas, people share a similar well-disposed attitude to badgers (more so than they do other urban wildlife, such as foxes); some however, dislike the presence of badgers on their property.
9. Often the best way to tempt wildlife to linger on your property is with the lure of food.
10. A male badger is a boar.
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Sources, and further badger reading:
European badgers – Wildlife Online
University of Wisconsin Athletics (Go Badgers!)
The Badger and the Panda (A Poem) (I shit you not)
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