The badger

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The badger
The European badger(Meles meles)
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summary
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features
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interesting facts
weight 15 - 20 kg
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Spreading
Badgers live in our region especially in
deciduous forest and mixed forests in bigger
Gardens and parks but also in the city
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Food
They eat both animal and vegetable fase
birds
mushrooms
fruit
snails
radix
worms
seeds
insects
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Reproduction
independent at theage of half a year
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badger's burrow

• average depth 5m to 30m

• many Corrodors to thr surface becauseof air
  supply

• padding with moss, bracken and leaves

• Usage over severtal centuries!

In England a badgers burrow with a lenght of 879
meters was descorvered!
It contained 50 chambers ans 178 corridors
connected with each other!
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Badgers burrow

• Burrow near Göttingen extension 60 x 40 m

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