#meles

[mammalianmammals]

Eurasian Badger (Meles meles), family Mustelidae, Sweden

photograph by Pataluth

[all-mammal-creechur]

Asian Badger Meles leucurus

A species of badger native to Mongolia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Korean Peninsula and Russia. There are five subspecies. It prefers open deciduous woodland and adjacent pastureland, but also inhabits coniferous and mixed woodlands, shrubland and steppe. It sometimes enters suburban areas.

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[weasel-war-dance]

European Badger | Tomasz Sokołowski

[wild-e-eep]

A cairn sett is a badger dwelling place where they have chosen to live in the void spaces underneath boulder scree; often in areas where there is little in the way of well-drained, tunnelable soil available.

I hope they are very happy here, even if they don't get as much digging done as they would like.

[best-mammal-tournaments]

Best Mustelid Tournament

R3: Japanese Badger (meles anakuma) vs Asian Badger (meles leucurus) vs European Badger (meles meles)

Japanese Badger

Asian Badger

European Badger

Voting ended onAug 24, 2025

Note: There is no photo of a live Asian badger on Wikipedia. The above photo was taken by deniszhbir on iNaturalist

[koenji]

Badgers of the world. Illustrations by Toni Llobet. x x

[birdblues]

European Badger