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VIDEO: Badgers preparing for evening hunt

Video recorded by  Fleur, LK forum

 

 

Badger          Mäger           Meles meles 

 

If you have spent the whole day in underground caves your coat needs some care. It is easier for a couple to get at spots that one cannot reach on one’s own.

At the end of the video a stranger comes to inspect the burrow surrounding but finds it best to leave quickly, just in case ...

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What do badgers fatten up on in autumn?

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Posted by the Animal of the Year team 10.08.2016 

Just now mainly fruits rich in carbohydrate are on the badger’s menu: raspberries, lingonberries, blueberries. In abandoned farm yards currants and apples too.
Photo: Tarmo Mikussaar
 

The middle of summer has passed. The closer to autumn, the more fruits are ripe, or ripening, in nature. It is a good time for a badger to start preparing for winter. Among important tasks the duty to fatten up one’s body has moved into the foreground.

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