adult badger | August and September but implantation of the embryo is delayed until mid-February | humans | Order Carnivora | badger | large burrow as long as 30 ft and as deep as 10 ft | southern prairies | Taxidea taxus | | ground squirrels, pocket gophers, prairie dogs, kangaroo rats, pocket mouse, voles, birds, snails, insects | | its front claws | stout body, flattened dorso-ventrally | blaireau d'Amérique | grizzled back with creamy or white belly, brown legs, black feet, white and black face | excavating burrows of its prey | open prairies, farmlands, parklands | Family Mustelidae | European badger |
adult male badger | August and September but implantation of the embryo is delayed until mid-February | humans | Order Carnivora | male mammal | large burrow as long as 30 ft and as deep as 10 ft | southern prairies | Taxidea taxus | 3.6-7.71 kg | ground squirrels, pocket gophers, prairie dogs, kangaroo rats, pocket mouse, voles, birds, snails, insects | 77.5-84.5 cm | its front claws | | blaireau d'Amérique | grizzled back with creamy or white belly, brown legs, black feet, white and black face | excavating burrows of its prey | open prairies, farmlands, parklands | Family Mustelidae | European badger |