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[[Image:Badger.jpg|right|thumb|300px|American badger.]]
'''Badger'''s are several species of medium sized [[mustelid]] [[carnivore]]s, the Eurasian badger (''Meles meles''), the North American badger, both grey with striped black and white heads, and the Honey badger or [[Ratel]] of Africa. The dire badger is a large savage variety occasionally encountered in [[role-playing game]]s.
Badgers are carnivorous upon various small animals such as [[rodent]]s, [[mole (animal)|mole]]s and [[hedgehog]]s. They live in elaborate underground burrow complexes called setts.
In the [[United Kingdom]] badgers are commonly blamed by farmers for spreading bovine [[tuberculosis]], although the disease is generally spread by uncontrolled livestock movements.
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 ==
(According to the [[King James Version]]) the [[tabernacle]] in which [[Ark of the Covenant]] was kept included badger skins in its construction:
<blockquote>
''And he made a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of badgers' skins above that.'' Exodus 36:19, (KJV)
</blockquote>
(Some versions of the Bible (e.g. the NIV) state here that the hides of [[sirenian]]s were used however.)
==Badgers in literature==
*Mr. and Mrs. Badger helped the four children evade capture by the Queen who made it "always winter and never Christmas" in the first [[Narnia]] book.
*Badger is one of the main characters in [[The Wind in the Willows]].
[[Category:Carnivores]]
[[Category:Biblical animals]]
'''Badger'''s are several species of medium sized [[mustelid]] [[carnivore]]s, the Eurasian badger (''Meles meles''), the North American badger, both grey with striped black and white heads, and the Honey badger or [[Ratel]] of Africa. The dire badger is a large savage variety occasionally encountered in [[role-playing game]]s.
Badgers are carnivorous upon various small animals such as [[rodent]]s, [[mole (animal)|mole]]s and [[hedgehog]]s. They live in elaborate underground burrow complexes called setts.
In the [[United Kingdom]] badgers are commonly blamed by farmers for spreading bovine [[tuberculosis]], although the disease is generally spread by uncontrolled livestock movements.
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 ==
(According to the [[King James Version]]) the [[tabernacle]] in which [[Ark of the Covenant]] was kept included badger skins in its construction:
<blockquote>
''And he made a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of badgers' skins above that.'' Exodus 36:19, (KJV)
</blockquote>
(Some versions of the Bible (e.g. the NIV) state here that the hides of [[sirenian]]s were used however.)
==Badgers in literature==
*Mr. and Mrs. Badger helped the four children evade capture by the Queen who made it "always winter and never Christmas" in the first [[Narnia]] book.
*Badger is one of the main characters in [[The Wind in the Willows]].
[[Category:Carnivores]]
[[Category:Biblical animals]]