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Sightings, pictures and distribution maps of European badgers in the Netherlands. Badgers in France, L'assiociation Meles. A video of an adult european badger. This is a close up video showing their behavior; Video of a European Badger feeding on peanuts by its sett; Video of an evening's badger-watching in mid-Wales, U.K.
The word "badger", originally applied to the European badger (Meles meles), comes from earlier bageard (16th century), [5] presumably referring to the white mark borne like a badge on its forehead. [6] Similarly, a now archaic synonym was bauson 'badger' (1375), a variant of bausond 'striped, piebald', from Old French bausant, baucent 'id.'. [7]
Badger, Shadow, and Frond, from the children's novel The Animals of Farthing Wood and its components The Fox Cub Bold and Battle for the Park all by Colin Dann. [8] [9] [7] Badger, [4] [10] the title character in Susan Varley's Badger's Parting Gifts, a Mother Goose Award-winning children's story that was showcased on Reading Rainbow in season 18.
The genus Meles was erected by French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1762 after Carl Linnaeus had described the Eurasian badger Meles meles in 1758. This animal had a very extensive range over most of temperate Europe and Asia and there has been much discussion as to whether it is a single or three distinct species.
Habitats vary widely as well, from the arboreal marten to the fossorial European badger to the marine sea otter. Population sizes are largely unknown, though two species, the sea mink and Japanese otter , were hunted to extinction in 1894 and 1979, respectively, and several other species are endangered .
Sable, Martes zibellina NA (western Ural Mountains, European Russia) Caucasian badger, Meles canescens (Crete, Rhodes) Asian badger, Meles leucurus [2] LC (Russia, Kazakhstan) European badger, Meles meles LC; Stoat, Mustela erminea LC; Steppe polecat, Mustela eversmanii LC; European mink, Mustela lutreola CR (eastern Europe, Spain, France)
Small game furbearers are plentiful in Romania and usually hunted with the aid of dogs and snow tracking. Species include European badger (Meles meles), European hare (Lepus europaeus), European pine marten (Martes martes), beech marten (Martes foina), European polecat (Mustela putorius), ermine (Mustela erminea) and weasel (Mustela nivalis).
The genus Mustela includes the least weasels, polecats, stoats, ferrets, and European mink. Members of this genus are small, active predators, with long and slender bodies and short legs. The family Mustelidae, or mustelids (which also includes badgers, otters, and wolverines), is often referred to as the "weasel family".