. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Mammals; Natural history; Mammifères; Sciences naturelles. (ii' â¢/.. When the Badger is employed in digging a i)urro\v, it makes use of its nose in order to push aside the earth, which is then sd'aped away by the fore-jiaws and Hung as far back as possible. In a very short time, the accunnilation of earth l)i'e(nnes so considerable tliat it iiupi'.dos the animal's movements, and if permitted to remain would soon choke up the tuiuiel which the miner so industriously excavating. The hiiuler paws are now brought into play
. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Mammals; Natural history; Mammifères; Sciences naturelles. (ii' â¢/.. When the Badger is employed in digging a i)urro\v, it makes use of its nose in order to push aside the earth, which is then sd'aped away by the fore-jiaws and Hung as far back as possible. In a very short time, the accunnilation of earth l)i'e(nnes so considerable tliat it iiupi'.dos the animal's movements, and if permitted to remain would soon choke up the tuiuiel which the miner so industriously excavating. The hiiuler paws are now brought into play, and the earth is Hung farther liack by their action. As the excavation proceeds, the accumulatt'd earth becomes so inconvenient that the Bad^^'n' is forced to remove it entirely out of the burrow, by retrograding from its position and pushing the loose earth away in its progivss. Having thus cleared the tunnel from the impediment, the Badger jiroeeeds to tling the earth as far away as possible, and until it has done so will not resume its labours. In this burrow the feinnl(> Biulger makes her nest and rears her young, which are fieuerally three or four in niuuber. The nest is made of well-dried grass, and stored with jirovisions in the shajie of grass-balls, which are tirndy rolled together, and laid up in a kind of sujiiilementary chamber that acts the part of a larder. There are also several ingeniously contrived sinks, wherein are deposited the rennrants of the ibod and other olfcnsive substances. The food of the Badger is of a mixed character, being partially vegetable and partly animal. Snails and wiu'ms are gieedily aevoured by this creature, and the M'ild , wasps, and other fossorial liymenoptera find a most destructive foe in the Badgei', which scrapes away the protecting earth and deviairs honey, cells, and grubs together, without being deterred frum its meal by the sting:- of the angry bees. The skin of tlu' Badger is so tough, and lies so loosely on the
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