. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammals; Animal behavior. THE MARTEN FAMILY—BADGER. 169 Characteristics The common Badger (Meles taxus or of the Meles vulgaris) attains a length of Common Badger, thirty inches in its body and seven inches in its tail. Adult males may weigh as much as forty pounds in the fall. The fur is rather long, harsh, nearly bristle-like and glossy. Its color is grayish white mixed with black on the back, reddish on the sides of the body and the tail, black-brown on the under surface and the f
. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammals; Animal behavior. THE MARTEN FAMILY—BADGER. 169 Characteristics The common Badger (Meles taxus or of the Meles vulgaris) attains a length of Common Badger, thirty inches in its body and seven inches in its tail. Adult males may weigh as much as forty pounds in the fall. The fur is rather long, harsh, nearly bristle-like and glossy. Its color is grayish white mixed with black on the back, reddish on the sides of the body and the tail, black-brown on the under surface and the feet. The head is white, but a faded black stripe runs on each side of the snout, over the eyes and white ears and loses itself in the neck. The females are smaller in size and lighter in color, the whitish woolly under fur coming nearer the surface. White badgers are very rare, and those that are white with chestnut spots are still more rarelv found. retain its independence to the most complete degree. Its strength enables it to dig out burrows with ease, and like a few other animals leading a subterranean life it can bury itself in a few minutes. Observations of The Badger spends nearly all its life Badgeis in in this burrow and goes a certain dis- the Wild State, tance away from it only at night. In very solitary woods it may come out for a walk in the afternoon in late summer, and I have met it myself in the daytime, on the Isle of Rugen, but such instances are the exception. Tschudi says : " A sportsman who had the rare chance of observing a Badger in the free state, gives an interesting account of it. He repeatedly visited a Badger's burrow, situ- ated on the edge of a precipice, and which was plainly seen from the opposite side. When the wind. THE TAYRA, This Bra/ilir tion depicts them appropriately in tlu claws are webbed, but they climb well very quick and dexte imily. having the long, slender body als, and prey upon Rabbits and othi hunters. (Galictis barbara.)
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