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I didn’t realize badgers were this communal.

Oh, yes. They mostly live together in big communal setts, with the exception of a few lone bachelors who are driven out to live on their own. It’s unclear who doesn’t make the cut.

The Europen Badger, (Meles Meles ) is a very communal beastie, while the American Badger ( Taxedea taxus ) is a loner. Eurpoean Badgers live in communal “setts”, while the American Badger lives in a burrow.

The European Badger uses his teeth and claws to defend himself with, while the American Badger prefers radar controlled 16″/50 caliber guns to act offensively.

The Europeam Badger is an omnivore, and quite likes himself a earthworm casserole, fresh out of the oven, while the American Badger is a carnivore, although my friend Trixy, who had a pet Badger beck in the 1960’s, when you could get away with that sort of thing, says that the American Badger will not turn his nose up to an occasional Snickers bar.

Mmmmmm… Snickers bars!

And, for the record, that was a civilised banquet with everyone on his or her best behaviour.

The booze came out later.

Video worked in Chrome (Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS) but not in Firefox until I installed the ubuntu-restricted-extras package.

I’ve got firefox 40.0.2 and it worked fine for me.

Wet?

I’ll have to look that up.

Cute badgers, though!

worked fine in my Firefox too.

Have them put out a little brew. Let’s see what these beasties look like when they’re hammered.

Nice creature video! Your badgers have prettier faces than the ones we see on our mountain meadows, and although these look very well fed, they’re much more slender and attractive. Ours are broad and squat, mean-looking, with long fur that sort of floats at their sides as they run. We give them a wide berth, and think they eat the marmots we encourage to live near the cabin because they’re such peaceful, sociable beings.

I once came upon an American badger crossing a country road. He stopped, and stood in the middle of the road, glaring at me. The laser beams from his eyes bounced off my windshield, so I drove around him.

OK, OK, there weren’t any laser beams. But I could feel his glare. The nasty little hairball wasn’t going to move for any old SUV, no sir! So I drove around him.