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AmericanBadger🦡

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SpeciesCarnivoraMustelidae
Carnivores

🦡American badger

Taxidea taxus (Schreber, 1777)

Borsucznik amerykański, borsuk amerykański (Taxidea taxus) – gatunek drapieżnego ssaka z rodziny łasicowatych (Mustelidae), jedyny przedstawiciel rodzaju Taxidea.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Measurements
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vs you
≈ 1/8th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
8 kg
Body length
0.64 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
26 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the American badger

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
8 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 8 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
0.64 m
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Brain mass
54 g
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Maximum lifespan
26 years
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  • 25 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
8.3 years
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Age at maturity
1.0 years
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Gestation
44 days
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  • 41 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
about 3
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 3AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic level
Carnivore
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Activity cycle
Nocturnal
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Home range
3.44 km²
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Population density
0.95 per km²
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Volume l
8 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for American badger yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderCarnivora
  5. ›familyMustelidae
  6. ›genusTaxidea
  7. ›speciesTaxidea taxus
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
  3. subfamilyTaxidiinae
  4. genusTaxidea
All 15 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderLaurasiatheria
  11. orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
  12. suborderCaniformia
  13. familyMustelidae
  14. subfamilyTaxidiinae
  15. genusTaxidea
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More about the American badger

Closest relative on this site
🦡 Beech marten — last shared an ancestor ≈ 14 million years ago.
What it eats
warm-blooded animals70%
reptiles, fish and amphibians20%
insects and other invertebrates10%
In other languages
Silberdachs (de), borsucznik amerykański (pl), Taxidea taxus (fr), 아메리카오소리 (ko), Taxidea taxus (es), amerikai borz (hu) … and 22 more languages

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