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badger comparison table |
Subject | have breeding season | be solitary | fight courageously | kill by | is a kind of | live in | have distribution | be nocturnal | have scientific name | eat | dig with | has part | have name in French | be not agile | have colour | hunt by | have habitat | be smaller than |
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weasel | carnivore | |||||||||||||||||
badger | humans | weasel | large burrow as long as 30 ft and as deep as 10 ft | southern prairies | Taxidea taxus | blaireau d'Amérique | open prairies, farmlands, parklands | |||||||||||
adult badger | August and September but implantation of the embryo is delayed until mid-February | humans | 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 | European badger | ||||
baby badger | humans | badger | large burrow as long as 30 ft and as deep as 10 ft | southern prairies | Taxidea taxus | blaireau d'Amérique | open prairies, farmlands, parklands |
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