As you can imagine, their diet is quite diverse. Their bodies are also designed to flourish in many different situations. The badger has a tough hide that protects it from predators. Their short legs are ideal for digging out creatures from underground and their long heads and small ears allow them to fit into tiny holes so they can extract food.
Badgers can also consume very tough food types. Their long jaws offer resistance to jaw dislocation and enhance their bite grip. These species can consume a huge variety of food types but they do show preference to some food sources like the following;.
Badgers love to dig and they will consume all sorts of insects they can find in the ground. They love to eat earthworms, grubs, slugs. A badger can consume hundreds of worms each night and they are not at all shy about mixing their food consumption.
Badgers also love small animals. They will catch and eat just about any small mammal such as mice, rats, frogs, rabbits, toads and more. While badgers prefer fresh flesh, they will also consume carcasses of any mammal if they come across one. These short-legged creatures are the main predator of hedgehogs because their tough skins are resistant to the sharp needles of hedgehog hides. They also love to munch on just about any fruits they can find.
Badgers love to eat apples, pears, plums, berries and any other type of fruit they can find in natural fields or citrus farms. Badgers are also known to become intoxicated with alcohol after consuming too many rotten fruits.
These omnivores will also consume a great variety of nuts and seeds found inside foods. Their diets include consuming acorns and they are known to pest farms with crops like wheat and sweet corn. Pet badgers are often fed on bird feed mixes. While digging out earthworms, badgers might consume all sorts of tree roots they find appealing. They are not shy at all about consuming plants.
Their diverse taste for plants and roots often results in the badger being hunted on farms. These creatures can cause quite a lot of damage to crops. Badgers do love to consume eggs and they are keen climbers. Their sharp claws and short-cropped bodies allow them to climb trees relatively easily so they can reach bird nests.
Their tough bodies are also able to withstand relatively high falls from trees. Being omnivores, these creatures do have quite a few diet variations. They can and will consume just about anything non-poisonous.
Honey badgers tend to be more carnivorous and are incredibly tough. They will seek out beehives to consume honey. These hardy creatures will also attack dangerous creatures like porcupines, venomous snakes and even crocodiles and they are agile enough to overcome these dangerous creatures with ease since they have a high resistance to venom.
Badgers are dangerous creatures. They have sharp claws and a mouth full of razor-sharp teeth. Wild badgers can also be very aggressive and will lash out whenever they feel threatened. You need to be very careful when feeding a wild badger. The best way to feed any badger, including tame badgers, is by piling foods in a heap. They love to scatter food about as they consume them, seeking out their favorite pieces to consume first.
Piling up badger foods allows you to observe these creatures for longer. Badgers are not fussy at all as to what they eat. They also tend to be greedy creatures and will feed until completely stuffed every time they find food. They do not hibernate but their activity does reduce during cold winter periods. In autumn the badger may consume more food to reserve fat for wintertime.
Providing badgers with an alternative food-supply may help reduce any garden damage, and badgers can make fascinating visitors. Many people like to feed badgers in their garden. Some commercial places even do so as it helps bring guests to stay at hotels and holiday parks. Badger eats food scraps at the Glen Rothay hotel near Ambleside. You can help badgers by providing a bowl of water and occasionally a little wet or sloppy cat food or dog food, as badgers will come out of their setts to feed during the evenings.
They will also eat seedless grapes, apples, pears, plums, plain peanuts or brazil nuts no salt or chocolate , peanut butter sandwiches, a very few Sugar Puffs or Custard Cream biscuits. Whilst a pile of peanuts on the patio makes life easier for the badgers, you may find it more entertaining to scatter them across the lawn - the badgers will then have to sniff them out - meaning you have longer to watch them.
However, wild animals will come to rely on artificial feeding; so it's best if you provide food in times of greatest need winter and spring or as an occasional treat.
In terms of quantities, we would recommend no more than the equivalent of a large handful of peanuts plus the same amount of soft wet fruit such as grapes per visiting badger - except when badgers are looking hungry or poorly; when they may be given a little more.
Individual badgers or clans may have slightly different taste preferences. If a badger clan lives near a takeway; it is more likely that members will be familiar with the normal takeaway food; and be happy to eat it. Badgers which lives in a rural area may not have come across takeaway food waste; so they may be reluctant to eat it, if other food sources are to hand. Note: If you leave out a dry dog food or cat food, then leave a spill-proof metal tray or trough of water too.
Water is especially important in hot periods; as many badger cubs die of dehydration if they can't get enough wet food to drink. Providing fresh clean water in the summer is a great benefit for badgers and other species; and we would encourage gardeners to do this if they can. Find out how to identify a bird just from the sound of its singing with our bird song identifier playlist.
Great ideas on how your garden, or even a small backyard or balcony, can become a mini nature reserve. This fantastic wetland site is located north of Southport town centre and has some of the best wildlife in the region. Badgers — or brocks, as they are sometimes called — are stocky, with short legs and silvery-grey fur. They have very distinctive black and white markings on their faces. Badgers are common throughout Britain. They live in family groups in a series of underground chambers, called setts, which are often used by successive generations.
They emerge at dusk to spend the night foraging for food and playing, which strengthens their social bonding. Badgers can live for up to 14 years. They can breed at any time of the year and choose months when temperature and food availability are optimal.
Females give birth to litters of up to six cubs. If you are very lucky - at night, wandering through the garden, foraging for food.
Also in woods and on grassland. Martin Harper Blog. How nature can help protect our homes Following the floods this winter, watch how one area is using nature as a natural protector.
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