The badger is a national protected animal

The dog badger is a national second-class protected animal, and now it has been listed as an endangered species, and its number is decreasing day by day, and most of them exist in the wild and woods.

The badger belongs to the national second-class protected animals, but the wolverine belongs to the national first-class protected animals. It is mainly distributed in the northeast, northwest, south China, central and southern parts of China, and is a wild animal with both skin, hair, meat and medicine. The economic value of the badger is high, and the skin is the raw material for making high-end fur clothing; Hair can be used to make high-grade brushes and oil brushes.

The badger, also known as the dog badger and the Eurasian badger, is a mammal distributed in most parts of Europe and Asia, and belongs to the carnivorous order Mustelidae. Badgers are listed separately in the genus Badgers, with a total of 5 subspecies. Badgers usually have a gray coat, a black underbelly, a black and white stripe on the face, and white ears.

Feeds mainly on earthworms, but also insects, beetles, and small mammals. Badgers and American badgers belong to the same family of weasels, but they are not the same species, and they are quite different in terms of distribution, feeding habits and habits.

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The badger is a national second-class protected animal. The badger is thick and fat, with short limbs, short round ears, small eyes and a pointed nose, a thick and short neck, and powerful black-brown claws on the toes of the front and rear feet, and the front paws are longer than the hind paws.

The back has long and thick needle hairs from head to tail, the color is a mixture of black-brown and white, brownish-gray, the nose has a well-developed cartilaginous nose pad, similar to a pig's nose, the limbs are thick and strong, and the toes are full of strong and thick long claws, and the claws are about the length of the toes.

Presentation of the badger

The dog badger, also known as the badger and the badger eight dogs, is mainly distributed in the northeast, northwest, south China, central and southern parts of China, and is a wild animal with both skin, hair, meat and medicine. The economic value of the badger is high, and the skin is the raw material for making high-end fur clothing; Mao can be made into high-grade brushes and oil brushes, and badger oil is a good medicine for burns and burns.

In order to protect the wild dog badger resources and help farmers increase their income, the development of artificial breeding is a breeding project with low investment, low cost, high efficiency and broad development prospects. The head is flat, the tip of the nose, the ears are short, the neck is short and thick, the tail is short, the limbs are short and stout, the claws are strong and suitable for digging, often live in the hole, the back hair is hard and dense, the base is white, the near end of the section is black-brown, the tip of the hair is white, and the side of the body has more white hair.

In a more secluded place, build a 20 30 m 2 enclosure house, surrounded by a wall about 2 m high with stones or bricks, and make a rockery with stones, and build several caves around the rockery. Put some soft hay or leaves in the cave, etc., and the size of the enclosure, the size of the rockery and the number of caves can be determined according to the number of badgers.

The dog badger is a second-class protected animalIt is listed on the 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

Most of the dog badgers exist in the wild, woods, like to dig holes, will live in their own holes, will repair their own burrows every day, to ensure that there is no debris inside, they are nocturnal animals will rest during the day, come out at night to forage, and will enter a state of hibernation when the cold winter hits.

Habit. Dog badgers have a fierce temperament, but do not actively attack domestic animals and people, and when pressed by people or hunting dogs, they often make a short "feed, feed" sound, and can raise their front body to fight back with sharp claws and canine teeth.

Dog badgers are omnivorous, feeding on plant roots, stems, fruits, frogs, earthworms, small fish, sand lizards, insects (larvae and pupa) and small mammals, etc., preferring to eat leftover food from wolves in grassland areas, and harming freshly sown seeds and maize, peanuts, potatoes, sweet potatoes, beans and melons at the sowing and maturity stages of crops.

The dog badger is a national second-class protected animal. The dog badger is also known as the badger zhi, hemp badger, mountain badger, etc., is a mammal of the weasel family dog badger, the body size is larger in the weasel family, generally in spring and autumn, the temperament is fierce, digging holes and dwelling, omnivorous, the habitat environment is relatively extensive, such as forests, shrubs, fields, lakes and other habitats, distributed in most areas of the Eurasian continent.

The badger population is not scattered and is common in Russia, with 30,000 individuals recorded in 1999, and the 2006 survey showed that the population density of the badger in Europe has increased compared to previous decades, and in Finland it is distributed near the northern border, with a lower density of about 2 doggers per 10 km², and the overall population tends to be stable.