American Badger

• Common name: Badger
• Scientific name: mammilia
• Scientific Genus: Taxidea
• species: T. taxus
• Biome:  Prarie and Teprate Forrest
• Countries: U.S, Mexico, Canada
• Special adaptions: The badger has big claws for digging and catching food, a good fur coat to keep them warm and a good sense of smell.
• Length:  23 to 29 inches  
• Weight is about 15 to 20 pounds
• Their body covering is fur.
• General description: The badger has a flat body with short legs and a tipped up nose with black, brown and white fur.
• A Badger is endothermic
• Name of young:  Kit or cub 
• Related species:  Ferret,Weasel 
• Name of a group of this animal:  mammal 
• Type of eater:  carnivor 
• A badger will eat Moles, Woodrats and Pocket Golphers. 
•  How does it capture food:  The Badger will smell, capture it with its claws or with its mouth.
• What eats it:  hawks or a fox
• The badger has teeth and claws to protect itself.
• What does it prey on: Prairie Dogs, Pocket Gophers and Kangroo Rats
• Forms of communication: The Badger will bite, yelp, growl or smell another badger.
• The Badger is not on the endangered list.   
• These are the resouses I used:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badger and http://people.westminstercollege.edu/faculty/tharrison/gslplaya99/badgers.htm and for a book I used Animal Fact File, Dr.Tony Hore, pages 22-23, 1999
•  symbiotic relationship: The Honeyguide leads the badger to a beehive and the badger eats the honey.  This is mutualsim.  Even though the hive is destroyed there is still some hive for the bees and that is commensalisms.            

 By:Cal 6A