European badger
Meles meles
At a glance
- Scientific name
- Meles meles
- Class
- Mammal
- Order
- Carnivora
- Family
- Mustelidae
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Size
- Small (under 1 m)
- Active
- By night
- Continent
- Europe, Asia
- Habitat
- Forest, Grassland
- Conservation status
- Least concern
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Medium
Did you know?
- Its underground setts can be used by generations of badgers and have many entrances.
- A fertilised egg can wait for months before implanting, so cubs are born in late winter.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q27066 · All animals · All entries