The wood abounds with wildlife, including badgers, foxes, shrews, butterflies and an array of birds. |
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The development, he maintains, would also threaten the presence of wildlife including yellowhammers, badgers and dormice. |
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The co-operation is conditional on seven specific measures including the culling of diseased populations of badgers. |
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Squirrels, badgers, dormice, and larger animals such as deer are greedy for it. |
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No more time must be lost in developing every available method of tackling this disease and field trials on badgers should start immediately. |
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After last year's triumph, you are cordially invited to bring your otters, voles, badgers and weasels for a day's work experience. |
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Highway engineers also plan to put up fencing along large stretches of the bypass to stop newts, badgers and foxes from straying onto the road. |
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Two species of stink badgers, also included in this family, are the closest living relatives to skunks. |
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The two species of stink badgers were thought to be distinct genera, but here are referred to as a single genus. |
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Like skunks, stink badgers can reward an enemy with a blast of a vile-smelling liquid. |
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Saucer-eyed tarsiers, pale moon rats and scruffy stink badgers perch stiffly in glass cases. |
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Coloration in skunks and stink badgers serves as an aposematic signal to would-be predators. |
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And to honey badgers, cobras and large-eyed tree snakes called boomslangs, the nest is a dependable larder. |
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In recent years, badgers have tunnelled into 52 ancient monuments on Salisbury Plain. |
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Ancient burial sites across Salisbury Plain could soon be fenced off to prevent badgers from tunnelling through the archaeology. |
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Animals used to make fur include dogs, cats, pumas, seals, badgers, foxes, otters, mink and squirrels. |
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Scottish Natural Heritage and the Highland Council have joined forces with developers to commission a major survey of badgers and their setts. |
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Earlier this year, animal welfare officers in West Lothian discovered a destroyed sett and two dead badgers, one of them a cub. |
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Swindon is blessed with many badger setts around the town but the rapid growth taking place has seen many of our badgers put at risk. |
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The agency's engineers are now installing a cat flap-style door at the entrance to the sett which allows the badgers out but not back in. |
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Inhabiting the park's many dense thickets are badgers, wildcats, foxes, beech martens, weasels and Egyptian mongooses. |
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Boar, deer, badgers, porcupines, foxes, wild cats and beech martens are the most important wild aminals in the park. |
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Forest dwelling mammals include beech martens, wildcats, genets, badgers and wild boar, as well as a number of small insectivores. |
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The most likely source of destruction is now from badgers which have already caused much damage to barrows, burial sites and other monuments. |
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There is an abundance of native birds living alongside badgers, deer and the marauding foxes which cleared out the bantams of a previous tenant. |
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There are masked palm civets, bamboo rats, hog nosed badgers, boars, barking deer and giant flying squirrels, as well as cats and dogs. |
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Remember that this breed was originally used as a working terrier and was bred to hunt badgers, rabbits and foxes. |
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Fife Constabulary's wildlife crime officer described baiting, specially trained dogs being set on badgers, as brutally vicious. |
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They also kill badgers as well by something called baiting, but I don't know much about that. |
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They do, however, both belong to the same Mustelidae family which also encompasses badgers, skunks and otters, and that's close enough for us. |
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The old prison is now a museum, and the nearby wildlife park has rare Scottish wildcats as well as silver foxes, badgers, deer and wallabies. |
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But magistrates also heard no licence was applied for by Barratts to protect the badgers under the 1992 Badgers Act. |
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Both animals are related species and are members of the Mustelid family, which also includes mink, badgers and weasels. |
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In Ireland, badgers have been eaten and cured in much the same way as we now cure bacon. |
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Business Week, which wants to be the house journal for Web 2.0 badgers, has no doubts. |
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The weasel family includes such colourful characters as otters, wolverines, skunks, minks and badgers. |
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We have been called out to rescue all sorts of animals from kittens, badgers, foxes and even a deer. |
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I was born in this house and as a boy, I remember often seeing foxes, badgers and weasels around the place. |
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Voles are an important source of food for many predators, including snakes, hawks, owls, coyotes, weasels, foxes, mink and badgers. |
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On that basis, we might as well all give up washing and go around smelling like badgers, and nearly as hairy, too. |
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Raccoons, civets, jackals, badgers, skunks, and bears also eat fruit, honey, seeds, roots, and other plant foods. |
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Badgers and their setts are protected under the Protection of Badgers Act 1992, which makes it illegal to kill, injure or take badgers, or interfere with a sett. |
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In 2012 she again raised eyebrows when she suggested that badgers shot in any cull should be eaten. |
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Fishers are among the least understood of the weasel family, or mustelids, which also includes martens, minks, ermines, ferrets, badgers, otters, and wolverines. |
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Black bears, grizzly bears, polar bears, wolverines, mountain lions, a number of snakes and even lynx, badgers and black flies might kill you in the wild in Canada. |
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They are hunted by coyotes, badgers, foxes, owls, and wolverines. |
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Foxes, red squirrels, badgers, hares, otters, Scottish wild cats, seals and bottle-nose dolphins can be seen if you have the dedication to find them. |
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Every so often, without apparent rhyme or reason, huge areas of my lawn are ripped to shreds, as if a colony of badgers has been holding an all-night party on it. |
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The new wood will link two other copses to create a two-hectare area and an ideal habitat for birds and animals including badgers and foxes that are rare to the Dales. |
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The cameras never detected some species that are believed to still exist in the area, such as black bears, long-tailed weasels, ringtails, badgers, and spotted skunks. |
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Back on the land, ferret badgers take turns with otters, ground squirrels and crab-eating macaques to stalk out their territory on the numerous white sandy beaches. |
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Over the years, game species, such as moose and bighorn sheep, and other creatures, such as badgers and river otters, were killed in appalling numbers. |
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It didn't take long before the spilt food attracted mice, and the mice attracted badgers, and the badgers attracted crazy porcupine things that we call Critters. |
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In their search for food, most of which is comprised of burrowing rodents, badgers tear up large areas of earth with powerful digging claws on their forefeet. |
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Pocket gophers, gopher tortoises, ants, badgers, prairie dogs, wild pigs, and grizzly bears are just a few of the animals that can alter ecological structure and function. |
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The badgers are baited by terriers and those who watch them bet large amounts of money on which terrier will put up the best fight against the badger. |
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Pine and beech martens are present, as are hares, badgers and foxes. |
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Dachshunds were originally bred to go down badger holes and kill badgers. |
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In the 1997 report, the group I chaired made a series of recommendations for controlling the disease including work related to husbandry, badgers and vaccination. |
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It accused Defra of deliberately ignoring deer and pointing the finger at badgers instead, even though a TB-infected badger had never been found in Cumbria. |
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Other diseases found in European badgers include arteriosclerosis, pneumonia, pleurisy, nephritis, enteritis, polyarthritis and lymphosarcoma. |
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However, hedgehogs tend to be absent from areas where badgers are numerous. |
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Although some brushes are made from wild badger hair, most hair is sourced from China where badgers are farmed for this purpose. |
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Smoked hams made from badgers were once highly esteemed in England, Wales and Ireland. |
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Tame badgers can be affectionate pets, and can be trained to come to their owners when their names are called. |
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Many badgers in Europe were gassed during the 1960s and 1970s to control rabies. |
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European badgers are of little significance to hunting economies, though they may be actively hunted locally. |
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Our wild animals consist of bobcat, mountain lion, badgers, raccoon, kangaroo mice, newts and a gray burrowing critter about the size of a hand. |
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In one story, Tadg berates his adopted son for having killed and prepared some badgers for dinner. |
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The initiative promises to sort out your bodgers from your badgers and offers free instruction on pole lathes, hurdle making and forestry skills. |
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Internal parasites of badgers include trematodes, nematodes and several species of tapeworm. |
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There are several species of deer living there along with Eurasian badgers. |
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Rabies has also been reported in other subspecies, such as honey badgers and European badgers in Africa and Europe. |
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Old badgers sometimes have their hind claws almost completely worn away from constant use. |
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Eurasian badgers may live alongside red foxes in isolated sections of large burrows. |
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Unlike badgers, which fastidiously clean their earths and defecate in latrines, red foxes habitually leave pieces of prey around their dens. |
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Since then there has been considerable controversy as to whether culling badgers will effectively reduce or eliminate bovine TB in cattle. |
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I would like the government to test murdered badgers to show whether they were clear of carrying TB and if they suffered inhumanely for nothing. |
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Compared to burrows constructed by Arctic foxes, badgers, marmots and corsac foxes, red fox dens are not overly complex. |
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However, cases are known of badgers driving vixens from their dens and destroying their litters without eating them. |
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Wolves, lynxes and dogs can pose a threat to badgers, though deaths caused by them are rare. |
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Some badgers may build their setts in close proximity to poultry or game farms without ever causing damage. |
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Compared to other British carnivores, such as otters and badgers, the polecat has received little exposure in popular media. |
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In mountainous or hilly districts, where vegetable food is scarce, badgers rely on rabbits as a principal food source. |
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Lutrinae is a branch of the weasel family Mustelidae, which also includes badgers, honey badgers, martens, minks, polecats, and wolverines. |
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Upon retiring to sleep, badgers block their sett entrances with dry leaves and earth. |
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The rabbits usually avoid predation by the badgers by inhabiting smaller, hard to reach chambers. |
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The badgers may provide protection for the rabbits against other predators. |
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In extreme cases, when there is a lack of suitable burrowing grounds, badgers may move into haystacks in winter. |
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A quiet walk may be rewarded by sightings of brown hare, muntjac deer and badgers. |
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Ferrets belong to the Mustelid family of mammals which includes weasels, stoats, polecats and badgers. |
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They are, in fact, mustelids, related to stoats, polecats, otters and badgers. |
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A sett is almost invariably located near a tree, which is used by badgers for stretching or claw scraping. |
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European badgers are fastidiously clean animals which regularly clear out and discard old bedding. |
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In areas with medium to high badger populations, dispersal from the natal group is uncommon, though badgers may temporarily visit other colonies. |
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Today, mammals of note include shrews, voles, badgers, otters, hedgehogs and fifteen species of bat. |
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Estrus in European badgers lasts four to six days and may occur throughout the year, though there is a peak in spring. |
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When attacked by dogs or sexually excited, badgers may raise their tails and fluff up their fur. |
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Aggression among badgers is largely associated with territorial defence and mating. |
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A hierarchical social system is thought to exist among badgers and large powerful boars seem to assert dominance over smaller males. |
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Bob Jackson 12th century church invaded by deathwatch beetles Such a cute little bug, we must protect it like we do badgers. |
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The guts of badgers are longer than those of red foxes, reflecting their omnivorous diet. |
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Predators of eggs and nestlings include raccoons, skunks, badgers, foxes, crows and ravens, dogs and owls. |
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Sometimes, the den is the appropriated burrow of smaller animals such as foxes, badgers or marmots. |
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There are large populations of badgers, roe deer, red foxes and rabbits in the valley. |
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There is an ongoing debate in England about whether badgers should be culled or vaccinated in order to reduce the spread of bovine tuberculosis. |
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For example, carnivorous mammals' descendants that now shun meat include honey badgers, bamboo-eating pandas, and termite-slurping aardwolves. |
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These included brown bears, wildcats, lynx, wolves, badgers and otters as well as Golden and white-tailed eagles, black vultures and six varieties of woodpecker. |
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Other small mammals, such as rabbits, foxes, badgers, hares, hedgehogs, and stoats, are very common and the European beaver has been reintroduced in parts of Scotland. |
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Research to help control the disease targets wild boars in Spain, brushtail possums in New Zealand, and badgers in the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom. |
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The spread of bovine tuberculosis has been attributed to badgers, however, studies in 2016 conclude that the issue is more to do with cattle and farm management. |
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Our ecosystem is a delicate thing, with every element of it from the fish to the badgers to the squirrels and the pine martens and all the rest of it being interconnected. |
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Diablo includes coastal black-tailed deer, gray foxes, bobcats, mountain lions, badgers, and coyotes, as well as the red-legged frog and the rare Alameda whipsnake. |
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Like other badger species, European badgers are burrowing animals. |
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The distributional boundary between the ranges of European and Asian badgers is the Volga River, the European species being situated on the western bank. |
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European badgers are the most social of badgers, forming groups of six adults on average, though larger associations of up to 23 individuals have been recorded. |
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Albino badgers can be pure white or yellowish with pink eyes. |
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Partial melanism in badgers is known, and albinos are not uncommon. |
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Some badgers will drag their dead out of the sett and bury them outside. |
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