Badgers

[Memphis]

Shoot em? Or all go boo hoo and cry a bit? They are not talking about an eradication of the species, just a managed cull. Where where they when they manage Deer numbers? The solution is to eat badgers, except they have TB. Stripy coat?

I dont know the layout of where you live but there is a reason why they are there. They really have no natural predators although wolves have predated on them in this part of the world. Foxes have been known to take cubs but you guys have already killed all of those

Richardson ground squirrels (gophers) are food items for them but I'm not sure about those populations in Britain. They dont indiscriminately attack people. They are not going to come out of their holes and attack someone on a bike unless they feel defensive for some reason. I grew up around them but they dont live this far north.

So just to be clear, Im NOT going to be killed by a badger on the way home tonight?

On a serious note I have heard that they are right hard bastards when pushed into fisticuffs.

[ross]

They are in the same family as ferrets and hyenas apparently and are one of the very few animals that can actually genuinly lock their jaw! Not just hold on with jaw strength but there jaw bone has some sort of hinge that locks in to the skull.

So if you or your dog or whatever else pisses one off and it grabs hold, even if you manage to kill it, you still aint getting the fucker off

[Beanz]

They are in the same family as ferrets and hyenas apparently and are one of the very few animals that can actually genuinly lock their jaw! Not just hold on with jaw strength but there jaw bone has some sort of hinge that locks in to the skull.

So if you or your dog or whatever else pisses one off and it grabs hold, even if you manage to kill it, you still aint getting the fucker off

That is why there are still people walking around with rotting Badger carcasses on the end of one leg. Like a black and white Fame style leg warmer only with teeth and flies.