Wednesday, 15 February 2012
Badger Facts
- Badgers are omnivorous, which means that they eat just about anything, including hedgehogs - skin, spines etc.
- A fully grown adult badger can be nearly a metre long and weigh more than 12kgs.
- Badgers are the fastest digging animal on the planet.
- Badgers can dig faster than a man with a spade.
- Badgers sometimes share their homes with other small mammals.
- Badgers mark their territory by doing a handstand and rubbing their bottom on a tree to leave their scent.
- Badgers have very poor eyesight, but a keen sense of smell.
- Despite being able to move around quite easily and quickly, most badgers spend their entire life in just 1 or 2 square miles.
- During winter badgers spend most of their time asleep, but unlike hibernating mammals, they don't lower their body temperature.
- A badger sett may be hundreds of years old.
- Badgers dig out small pits, near to the sett, to use as toilets.
- Rangers - the Scottish football club - play at Ibrox (the word Ibrox means 'Home of the Badgers').