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The American badger is a member of the Mustelidae, a diverse family of carnivorous mammals that also includes weasels, otters, ferrets, and the wolverine. [4] The American badger belongs to the Taxidiinae, one of four subfamilies of mustelid badgers – the other three being the Melinae (four species in two genera, including the European badger), the Helictidinae (five species of ferret ...
Badgers can run or gallop at 25–30 km/h (16–19 mph) for short periods of time. Some species, notably the honey badger, can climb well. In March 2024, scientists released footage of a wild Asian badger climbing a tree to a height of 2.5 m in South Korea. [20] Badgers are nocturnal. [21]
"A Match at the Badger" by Henry Thomas Alken circa 1820. The badger is a usually quiet and docile creature in its own domain; however, when cornered or threatened it can show great courage. Weighing up to 35 pounds (15 kg) when fully grown, the badger has an extraordinarily dangerous bite, which it is willing to use when threatened.
This honey badger is part of a group of the animals living in captivity in Ohio. In the wild, honey badgers live alone and have enormous ranges whose territory is marked with their stinky anal glands.
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Cape ground squirrel. A fossorial animal (from Latin fossor 'digger') is one that is adapted to digging and which lives primarily (but not solely) underground. Examples of fossorial vertebrates are badgers, naked mole-rats, meerkats, armadillos, wombats, and mole salamanders. [1]
Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana) Felidae. Bobcat (Lynx rufus) Cougar (Puma concolor) extirpated Eastern cougar, (P. c. couguar) EX; Leporidae. Swamp rabbit (Sylvilagus aquaticus) Eastern cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus) Marsh rabbit (Sylvilagus palustris) Snowshoe hare (Lepus americanus) extirpated [2] Mephitidae. Striped skunk ...
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