Badger Facts
There are eight different species of badger.
Badgers have been present in Britain for thousands of years.
A male badger is called a boar, a female is a sow and the babies are called cubs.
Badgers live in underground burrows called setts that they dig themselves. Some can be centuries old!
Badgers are very clean and will not poo in their sett, they use special toilets that they dig themselves.
Badgers eat hundreds of earthworms every night, but also love insects, bluebell bulbs and elder berries.
Badgers can get a disease called TB which they can sometimes pass on to cows that give us milk; this is why some farmers don’t like them very much.
Badgers have an amazing sense of hearing and smell, but don’t have very good eyesight and VERY powerful claws.
3 things to remember about badgers
- They are omnivores (they eat both other animals and plants).
- They are nocturnal (they sleep during the day).
- Finally, they are a protected species in the UK.
