adult male badger | has length 77.5-84.5 cm | |
is a kind of adult badger | |
is a kind of male mammal | |
weighs 3.6-7.71 kg | |
adult badger | digs with its front claws | |
eats ground squirrels, pocket gophers, prairie dogs, kangaroo rats, pocket mouse, voles, birds, snails, insects | |
fights courageously | |
has breeding season August and September but implantation of the embryo is delayed until mid-February | |
has colour grizzled back with creamy or white belly, brown legs, black feet, white and black face | |
hunts by excavating burrows of its prey | |
is nocturnal | |
is not agile | |
is solitary | |
is smaller than European badger | |
badger | has distribution southern prairies | |
has habitat open prairies, farmlands, parklands | |
has name in French blaireau d'Amérique | |
has scientific name Taxidea taxus | |
hibernates | |
is killed by humans | |
lives in large burrow as long as 30 ft and as deep as 10 ft | |
mammal | is warm-blooded | |
may catch rabies | |
weasel | has Family name Family Mustelidae | |
carnivore | has Order name Order Carnivora | |
is carnivorous or omnivorous | |