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Badger

Badgers are medium-sized short-legged omnivores in the superfamily Musteloidea. Badgers are a polyphyletic rather than a natural taxonomic grouping, being united by their squat bodies and adaptions for fossorial activity rather than by their ancestral relationships: Musteloidea contains several families, only two of which (the "weasel family" Mustelidae…

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Diet

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Badger

Nodes168
Edges167
Triples194
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.011905
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Badger

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related to External links · 27
Badger → American BadgersLocal, April, Archived, Badgerland, Badgers, BadgersBadger Factswww, Cornhill Magazine, Coyote Associations Archived, Encyclopædia Britannica, Fox, III, Information, Natural History, October, Popular Science Monthly, Reprinted, September, Texts, The American Cyclopædia, The Badger
related to Culling · 26
Badger → As, Berne Convention, British, Controlling, Department, Environment, Europe, European, Food, Gloucestershire, However, In, In August, John Krebs, Limited, Lord Krebs, Many, Northern Ireland, Randomised Badger Culling Trial, Rural Affairs
related to Etymology · 25
Badger → Catalan, Celtic, Dutch, Early Modern English, European, French, Gaelic, German Dachs, Germanic, Italian, Latin, Meles, Norwegian, Old English, Old French, PIE, Portuguese, Proto-Celtic, Romance, Scots
related to Distribution · 21
Badger → Arabian Desert, Badgers, Bornean, China, Europe, Great Britain, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Levant, Malaysia, North America, Pakistan, Saharan Africa, Scandinavia, The, The Javan, They
related to Hunting · 21
Badger → Although, Animals Act, Badger-baiting, Badgers, Badgers Act, China, Cruelty, German, Hunting, In England, Native American, Protection, Scottish, The American, The Chinese, The Dachshund, The European, The Hunting Act, This, Village
related to Classification · 18
Badger → Arctonyx, Chamitataxus, Family MustelidaeSubfamily MelinaeGenus ArctonyxNorthern, HelictidinaeGenus MelogaleBurmese, Meles, MelesJapanese, Mellivora, MellivorinaeHoney, Melogale, Mephitidae, MephitidaeSubfamily MydainaeGenus MydausIndonesian, Mustelidae, Mydaus, Pliotaxidea, Sunda, Taxidea, Taxidiinae, The
related to Food · 16
Badger → Altai Region, Although, Badgers, Blaireau, Britain, European, In, In Croatia, In France, Native Americans, Russia, Shish, Spain, United Kingdom, United States, World War II
related to In popular culture · 9
Badger → Europe, Groundhog Day, In German-speaking, Medieval European, North American, The, They, This, Two
related to Behaviour · 7
Badger → Asian, Badgers, Cete, In March, Some, South Korea, The
related to Diet · 7
Badger → American, Eurasian, In, Lumbricus, Spain, The, They

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badgers american european honey species also stink called mustelidae mephitidae family used two meles meat bodies melinae tail ferret-badger culling

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Badgeris amost basal of all0.90text
Badgeris aboar0.90text
Badgeris astate animal of the U.S. state of Wisconsin0.90text
Badgerrelated to Badger gatesWhen0.60section
Badgerrelated to Badger gatesBecause0.60section
Badgerrelated to Badger gatesIdeally0.60section
Badgerrelated to Badger gatesThe0.60section
Badgerrelated to Badger gatesWith0.60section
Badgerrelated to BehaviourThe0.60section
Badgerrelated to BehaviourSome0.60section
Badgerrelated to BehaviourCete0.60section
Badgerrelated to BehaviourBadgers0.60section

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