1. Badgers All about...

2. Badgers are very shy animals that live in family groups. They are usually nocturnal.

3. A badger's home is called a sett. The sett is an underground home, often with lots of tunnels. Badgers have to dig out tons of earth to make a sett.

4. An adult can grow up to 1m long and usually weighs about 11 kg.

5. Badgers have very powerful claws that they use for digging.

6. A badger's nose is called its snout. They have a very good sense of smell. They look for food with their snouts by sniffing the ground in front of them.

7. Badgers are omnivores and will eat lots of different foods. Their favourite food is earthworms and they eat up to 200 every day.

8. Badgers do less in the winter but they do not hibernate.

9. People are the main enemies of badgers. It is illegal for anybody to kill, or hurt badgers.

10. Badgers are closely related to otters, stoats, weasels, polecats and pine martens. otter stoat pine marten weasel pole cat

11. Glossary nocturnal- mostly comes out at night hibernate-sleeps during the winter sett-a badger's home