Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
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Encounters of the Wild Kind: The American Badger
Badgers are expert diggers, using their short, powerful legs and long claws to create tunnels and chambers called setts.
Badgers are part of the Mustelidae family, which also includes otters, weasels, and minks.
Badgers have a keen sense of smell and hearing, but are almost blind.
Young American badgers first emerge from the den on their own at five to six weeks old.
American badgers are most commonly found in treeless areas, including tallgrass and shortgrass prairies, grass-dominated meadows and fields within forested habitats, and shrub-steppe communities.
Badgers eat a variety of small animals, including pocket gophers, ground squirrels, moles, marmots, prairie dogs, woodrats, kangaroo rats, deer mice, and voles. They also eat insects and birds.
A group of badgers is called a Sete (pronounced seet).
Like all badgers, this species is fierce and built for defense, with thick, loose fur and skin and muscular necks that makes them harder to catch. When threatened, American badgers vocalize by hissing and growling, and will also emit a musky odor—though it’s not quite as off-putting as that of their cousin, the skunk.
In some parts of the U.S., they’ve have been known to hunt alongside coyotes. In these short-term alliances, the badger takes advantage of prey driven underground by the coyote, while the coyote benefits from burrowing prey, like ground squirrels, chased above ground by the badger. This is an example of mutualism, in which animals of different species work together to meet their individual needs.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Female at den
0:08 moving away
0:13 kit appears
0:32 kit above ground
0:56 Sete
1:01 moving dirt
1:24 digging and kit playing
1:42 Digging close-up
1:58 Badger and Bison
2:06 Lunch
2:25 Leaving the den
2:43 Goodbye Look
2:48 Why you never try and outrun a badger!
🎵 Music in this video 🎵:
"Utopia" by Veaceslav Draganov
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#badger #americanbadger #badgers
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To license footage please contact me at: becca@bwoodphotography.com
Encounters of the Wild Kind: The American Badger
Badgers are expert diggers, using their short, powerful legs and long claws to create tunnels and chambers called setts.
Badgers are part of the Mustelidae family, which also includes otters, weasels, and minks.
Badgers have a keen sense of smell and hearing, but are almost blind.
Young American badgers first emerge from the den on their own at five to six weeks old.
American badgers are most commonly found in treeless areas, including tallgrass and shortgrass prairies, grass-dominated meadows and fields within forested habitats, and shrub-steppe communities.
Badgers eat a variety of small animals, including pocket gophers, ground squirrels, moles, marmots, prairie dogs, woodrats, kangaroo rats, deer mice, and voles. They also eat insects and birds.
A group of badgers is called a Sete (pronounced seet).
Like all badgers, this species is fierce and built for defense, with thick, loose fur and skin and muscular necks that makes them harder to catch. When threatened, American badgers vocalize by hissing and growling, and will also emit a musky odor—though it’s not quite as off-putting as that of their cousin, the skunk.
In some parts of the U.S., they’ve have been known to hunt alongside coyotes. In these short-term alliances, the badger takes advantage of prey driven underground by the coyote, while the coyote benefits from burrowing prey, like ground squirrels, chased above ground by the badger. This is an example of mutualism, in which animals of different species work together to meet their individual needs.
youtu.be/tckEXWJJedI
youtu.be/owXgZgULb4U
Timestamps:
0:00 Female at den
0:08 moving away
0:13 kit appears
0:32 kit above ground
0:56 Sete
1:01 moving dirt
1:24 digging and kit playing
1:42 Digging close-up
1:58 Badger and Bison
2:06 Lunch
2:25 Leaving the den
2:43 Goodbye Look
2:48 Why you never try and outrun a badger!
🎵 Music in this video 🎵:
"Utopia" by Veaceslav Draganov
artlist.io/Becca-1378936
ALL IMAGES IN THIS VIDEO ARE COPYRIGHTED, ©Becca Wood - B. Wood Photography. No part of this video shall be downloaded, altered or reproduced in any way or by any means without the formal written permission of B. Wood Photography. All Rights Reserved
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🎞️ My Gear:
Cameras 📷:
Canon 1 DX Mark III camera
Canon 1 DX
Canon 5d Mark II
GoPro 9 Black
GoPro 7 Silver
DJI Mavic Air 2
_______________________________
Lenses:
Canon EF 400mm f/2.8L IS II USM Lens
Canon EF 600mm f/4L IS III USM Lens
Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM Lens
Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM Lens
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS Usm Lens
Canon 1.4x Extender
Canon 2.0x III Extender
_______________________________
Gitzo carbon fiber tripod
Manfrotto tripod
Manfrotto monopod
Joby Gorilla Pod
--------------------------------------------------
Website: bwoodphotography.com
Celebrating Life Magazine: bwoodphotography.com/Products/Magazine
--------------------------------------------------
Social Media:
Facebook: @BWoodPhotos
Instagram: @bwoodphotography
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"God is in the details." Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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