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Bill Badger in the Bill Badger series (1957–1969) by Denys Watkins-Pitchford [12] Boomer Badger from the magazine Ranger Rick. Brock the Badger in The Epic of Brock the Badger (1960) by Henry Williamson [7] Brock the Badger in Yours Ever, Sam Pig by Alison Uttley [10] Brock and his family from E. H. Shepard's Ben and Brock [8]
A male badger is a boar, a female is a sow, and a young badger is a cub. A badger's home is called a sett. [9] Badger colonies are often called clans. The far older name "brock" (Old English: brocc), (Scots: brock) is a Celtic loanword (cf. Gaelic broc and Welsh broch, from Proto-Celtic *brokko) meaning 'grey'. [7]
However, in North America the young are usually called kits, while the terms male and female are generally used for adults. A collective name suggested for a group of colonial badgers is a cete, [10] but badger colonies are more often called clans. A badger's home is called a sett. [11]
The quintessential honey badger behavior transcends typical issues like back-talk or sibling squabbles; these kids have been observed intervening in harassment, fearlessly standing up to strangers ...
The badger Tommy Brock with the stolen bunnies. Mr. Tod, a fox, and Tommy Brock, a badger, are both troublesome neighbours and "disagreeable people." Mr. Tod owns a number of homes around the wood. Whenever he moves from one house to another, Tommy Brock moves in to the vacated premises, without permission.
The name Broxburn is a corruption of "brock's burn", brock being an old Scots name for a European badger whether from the Gaelic broc [2] [3] or the Pictish/Welsh/Brythonic Broch [4] and burn being a Scots word for a large stream or small river. [5]
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