The American badger is ideally suited to its role as fossorial carnivore, or a predator that digs. Its front claws are nearly 2 in. in…
Badger
At the end of last week’s column, the reputation of a certain local naturalist was in tatters. She’d mistaken a dead raccoon, one of our area’s most common roadkills, for a badger, a mammal that is rarely seen in Kane County. Little did she know, though, that badgers were alive and well—and reproducing, even, just
Animal, Badger, Mammal, Ring-Tailed Badger