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Badger
webcam, courtesy of
(during the day try our owlcam
instead)
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Click
on the images above for a larger picture
(This camera is only live at dusk in the UK
- approximately 9pm - 11.30pm)
BADGER FACTFILE
Most
badgers have a characteristic black and white striped face
with small white-tipped ears and a grey body.
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The
badger is a stocky animal, being about 750mm in length (from
head to tail), with a 150mm tail, once fully grown. .
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The
weight of an adult badger varies throughout the year - depending
on how much fat it has laid down for the winter months.
In spring an adult badger will have an average weight of
8 to 9 kg, rising to 11 to 12 kg in autumn.
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Badgers
are very tidy animals. They spend a lot of time transporting
grass, straw, moss or bracken to and from their sleeping chambers
deep in the sett.
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Setts are handed down like family houses from generation
to generation, and the badger uses the same sett year after
year.
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enlarging a tunnel a badger will loosen the earth with rapid
strokes of its forelimbs, and then use its claws as rakes.
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