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Things you need to know about BADGERS! | A Shot Of Wildlife | YouTubeToText
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European badgers are the UK's largest land predator, characterized by their distinctive appearance, complex social structures, nocturnal habits, diverse diet, and unique reproductive cycle, all while facing challenges like bovine TB culling.
hi everyone it's liam here from a shot
of wildlife and in this video i'm going
to tell you almost everything you need
european badgers are the uk's largest
remaining land predator with adults
growing to between 70 centimeters and a
meter long
their weight varies throughout the year
at six to seven kilos in the summer and
twice as much in the winter at 12 to 14 kilos
kilos
never striking black and white striped
face with a long and broad snout and
small eyes and ears
over most of their bodies their fur is
silvery grey but their legs and feet are
darker becoming almost black at the toes
badges have five forward pointing toes
on each foot which leaves a
characteristic footprint and they also
badgers live in communal family clans
which can number from just two
individuals to more than twenty
they are nocturnal and spend the daytime
in a series of underground chambers and
tunnels known as a set
badger clans sometimes live in a set for
many years sometimes even decades
and the largest known set had a tunnel
network of 879 meters and it had 50
in places where badges are not
persecuted they can emerge whilst it's
still light but usually they'll begin to
venture out of the set after dark and
follow well-trodden paths throughout
their diet includes earthworms slugs and
snails and wild fruits nuts and seeds
they're also known to eat small mammals
such as mice rats squirrels and rabbits
and amphibians such as frogs and toads
they're one of the only predators
capable of catching killing and eating hedgehogs
hedgehogs
badges have really poor eyesight but
this is more than made up for with their
strong sense of hearing and exceptional
sense of smell
during their nightly patrols they'll
also use a communal toilet known as a
latrine often along the edges of the
clan's territory and sensed from this
let the other badger clans know who has
badges sometimes roam outside of their
family's territory and come into contact
with other unrelated badgers this is
good news for the females which are
known as sows as from 12 months of age
they become ready to breed and can come
into contact with unrelated males which
are known as bores
they can mate at any time of the year
but this often takes place in february
or september
the sow doesn't become pregnant straight
away and instead carries fertilized eggs
until december time when she'll become
pregnant properly and the cubs will
begin to develop inside her
this pregnancy lasts from seven to eight
weeks after which point she'll give
birth to between one and five cubs deep
the cubs are born fearless and blind but
on a diet of rich milk they grow quickly
and by around 8 weeks of age they look
like miniature versions of her mother
and she'll bring them to the surface to
meet the rest of the clan
over the next three months the young
badgers start joining the adults on
foraging trips and by five months of age
they are fully independent
in the september or october of their
first year some young badgers especially
young males move away from their
mother's clan and either join a
different clan or start a brand new set
this happens more in areas where there
are not many badges about but in places
where there are several badger sets near
one another the youngsters are more
likely to stay with their original
clan although badgers are active
throughout the year during the winter
they'll often remain underground
sleeping for long periods of time and
relying on their built up fat stores for energy
energy
they're very social within their clan
and communicate with each other through
a series of grunts squirrels and whistles
it wouldn't be right to make a video
about badgers without mentioning a
controversial cull that has been going
on across the uk over recent years
the colour is trying to reduce the
spread of bovine tb to cattle but
unfortunately most studies show that it
isn't working and by culling some
members of a clan the badgers may
actually travel further and increase the
despite the coal one quarter of the
world's badgers are in the uk with
between three and five hundred thousand
of them living here
european badges are also found across
most of mainland europe and into some
parts of the middle east
while badgers have an average life
expectancy of five to eight years but
have been known to live beyond 15 years
in the world and a captive badger
well there we go if you learned
something new check out this british
wildlife video and if you enjoyed that
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