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