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Badgers are commonly blamed by farmers for spreading bovine [[tuberculosis]], although the disease is generally spread by uncontrolled livestock movements.
 
Badgers are commonly blamed by farmers for spreading bovine [[tuberculosis]], although the disease is generally spread by uncontrolled livestock movements.
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Badger hairs are sought after for making shaving-brushes.
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Badger hairs were sought after for making shaving-brushes, a practise that has ceased in many parts of the world due to the dwindling badger population. Badger hair shaving brushes now have something of an [[heirloom]] quality about them as commercially farming and shaving badgers has failed due to the fact that they are not [[social]] animals and tend to aggression when in captivity.
    
== Badgers in the Bible ==
 
== Badgers in the Bible ==

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