Badgers are found across the UK, with the highest numbers in southern England. Ideal badger habitat is a mixture of woodland and open country. The species lives in a network of underground burrows and tunnels know as a sett. Each badger territory will include a main sett and several smaller outlying setts.
Q. In which countries do badgers live?
Badgers are found in much of North America, Great Britain, Ireland and most of the rest of Europe as far north as southern Scandinavia. They live as far east as Japan and China.
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Q. Do badgers live in Europe?
The European badger (Meles meles), also known as the Eurasian badger, is a badger species in the family Mustelidae native to almost all of Europe.
Q. Are there badgers in North America?
Badgers are found primarily in the Great Plains region of North America. Badgers occur north through the central western Canadian provinces, in appropriate habitat throughout the western United States, and south throughout the mountainous areas of Mexico .
Q. Do American badgers eat rattlesnakes?
EATING HABITS: American Badgers are carnivorous, dining mainly on tunneling rodents like prairie dogs, ground squirrels and mice. They eagerly eat snakes and are considered a prime predator on rattlesnakes.
Q. Are Badgers dangerous to humans?
Badgers are not considered dangerous for humans. They are extremely reluctant to come in contact with humans and wouldn’t attack you, unless you try to charge or harass them. In addition, Badger attacks on humans are uncommon, however, they do occur. …
Q. Will a badger eat a dog?
Since they eat such a wide diversity of foods, they will probably eat most of what you put out for them (or for the birds, or hedgehogs, or the dog), but it’s best to stick to foods that most closely match their natural diet.
Q. What smell do Badgers not like?
Citronella Oil – badgers really dislike the smell of citronella. Applying it to the bottom of fences and around entrances may be enough to keep them away (unless they are particularly hungry). Male Urine – not the most desirable repellent to use, but it does work.
Q. Can you eat badger?
As with all meat you just make sure you cook it long and hot enough to kill any bugs. ‘Badgers are fully edible, and their meat could be used to feed the hungry rather than being chucked in a furnace, I can’t see any point in that. ‘
Q. Do Badgers kill humans?
And though there were reports in the mid-20th century that honey badgers killed prey by emasculating them and letting them bleed to death, no one has reported such as attack, on prey or on humans, since 1950, and this may simply be folklore.
