BADGERS
Mammal    -     Vertebrate    -    Carnivore

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Badgers ...

• Live in burrows - known as setts - and have powerful forelegs and long claws with which to do their digging
  
• Usually dig for their food and they like to eat earthworms, grubs and insects, cereals, fruit and roots  
  
• Also eat amphibians - frogs - small mammals and ground nesting birds  
  
• Are named for the contrasting stripe of fur - the 'badge' - on the forehead  
  
• Have glands near their rump that produces a strong smelling liquid called musk  
• Use the musk to mark their territory, to mark a scent trail to food and to drive away attackers by squirting the musk at them
• The French for Badger is  'blaireau' which also means 'shaving brush'

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Male  ...............................................   Boar
Female   ..........................................   Sow
Young   .....................................   Cub.  Kit

COLLECTIVE NOUNS
1.  A cete of badgers
2.  A clan of badgers
3.  A colony of badgers
4.  A company of badgers
5.  A sett of badgers

SIMILE

• As bald as a badger
  

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IDIOMS, METAPHORS AND EXPRESSIONS

1. To badger (someone)
   

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