Did you know that Badgers growl & snarl?

[rusky]

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[HLaB]

 

[rusky]

it must be bad, it's on the DWA list!

 

[porteous]

Round here they are shy and quietly nocturnal. And eat all of my perishing strawberries, so it's me that's nasty and snarls.

 

[Bromptonaut]

Well that one's definitely male!! It's also a very large image; any chance of the OP reducing the file size?

 

[rusky]

Well that one's definitely male!! It's also a very large image; any chance of the OP reducing the file size?

Done

 

[Paulus]

(don't know what possessed it to come out of hibernation)

I didn't know that badgers hibernate, I thought they just went to ground in their sett and stayed there waiting for better weather. You learn something everyday on this forum.

 

[GrasB]

I didn't know that badgers hibernate, I thought they just went to ground in their sett and stayed there waiting for better weather. You learn something everyday on this forum.

It's highly improbable that badgers hibernate in the UK, in the US there's more of a case for it but it's still not proven either way. However badgers are far less active In the winter, especially when food is scarce

 

[goo_mason]

At least it wasn't you growling at the badger...

(I'll get me coat!)

 

[661-Pete]

I didn't know that badgers hibernate, I thought they just went to ground in their sett and stayed there waiting for better weather. You learn something everyday on this forum.

It's highly improbable that badgers hibernate in the UK, in the US there's more of a case for it but it's still not proven either way. However badgers are far less active In the winter, especially when food is scarce

I think GrasB is right and I was wrong - just checked the Badger Trust website and yes, badgers don't hibernate in UK, they just lay off most of their feeding and stay underground. Which is why you don't often see them in the winter - either live or as roadkill. But they'll be out and about soon, if not now...

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Of COURSE they growl and Snarl! What did you THINK they did, dance and sing??

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Even rabbits !!!! ..seriously

As a youngster i used to fish the Trent and had to walk up a hill which levelled off instantly at the top. I came traipsing up said hill, got to the top and blow me, there's a wild rabbit sat just on top, back to me, nibbling at the grass, blissfully unaware i was there maybe 3 ft away.
I stood there watching it, moved so slowly forward....and grabbed it.
What i didnt wxpect was the grunting, snarling, twisting and shaking monster the rabbit became It sounded like my dog FFS It was one of those moments when you stand there, arms outstretched, holding onto this rabid animal thinking....ooer.

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=XcxKIJTb3Hg


Look at it, its a rabid visious thing, just look, you can see it plotting its evil, deadly revenge as it lies there, looking all cute, the PSHYCHO!:


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSFB2ytWJLQ

 

[Panter]

Of COURSE they growl and Snarl! What did you THINK they did, dance and sing??

No, course not

I just thought they looked stripey and fluffy, and were held in high respect by other creatures of the woodland. You know, like on Wind in the Willows (my brain is a simple and idealistic place

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I certainly didn't expect the snarling, head-shaking physcotic ball of fury that charged towards me out of the blackness, that's for sure

(No Badgers were harmed in the making of this thread)

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

No, course not

I just thought they looked stripey and fluffy, and were held in high respect by other creatures of the woodland. You know, like on Wind in the Willows (my brain is a simple and idealistic place )

And they are friends with moles?? :

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=sPz1Zy98bJw

The comment near the top is correct, I think that that was probably the first cartoon I'd seen as a kid where characters actually died or were killed.

Great education for a kid, even if Badger was portrayed as being the model of civility itself.

For those who don't know, it was about the Animals of Farthing Wood (oddly enough) who were displaced and had to travel across human civilisation to get to a nature reserve. Births, deaths, it had it all!

 

[Panter]

And they are friends with moles?? :

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=sPz1Zy98bJw

Yes! that's it! that's how Badgers should be