| adult badger | digs with its front claws |  |
| eats ground squirrels, pocket gophers, prairie dogs, kangaroo rats, pocket mouse, voles, birds, snails, insects | |
| fights courageously | |
| has breeding season August and September but implantation of the embryo is delayed until mid-February | |
| has colour grizzled back with creamy or white belly, brown legs, black feet, white and black face | |
| has part belly gland that emits a musky odour when the badger is excited | |
| has part long front claws | |
| has part semiplantigrade feet | |
| has part short ears | |
| has part short legs | |
| has part short tail | |
| has part stout body, flattened dorso-ventrally | |
| hunts by excavating burrows of its prey | |
| is nocturnal | |
| is not agile | |
| is solitary | |
| is smaller than European badger | |
| is a kind of badger | |
| badger | has distribution southern prairies | |
| has habitat open prairies, farmlands, parklands | |
| has name in French blaireau d'Amérique | |
| has scientific name Taxidea taxus | |
| hibernates | |
| is killed by humans | |
| lives in large burrow as long as 30 ft and as deep as 10 ft | |
| weasel | has Family name Family Mustelidae | |
| carnivore | has Order name Order Carnivora | |
| is carnivorous or omnivorous | |
| mammal | is warm-blooded | |
| may catch rabies | |
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