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Topic: Taxidea


  
  Badger -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
The name is possibly derived from the word badge, on account of the marks on the head; or it may be identical with the term noted below, the French blaireau being used in both senses.
Typical badgers (Meles, Arctonyx, Taxidea and Mellivora species) are short-legged and heavy-set.
The lower jaw is articulated to the upper, by means of a transverse condyle firmly locked into a long cavity of the cranium, so that dislocation of the jaw is all but impossible.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/ba/badger.htm   (799 words)

  
 Burrowing Owl Detailed Information - Montana Animal Field Guide
Canadian breeders are believed to winter south of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Burrowing Owls are found in open grasslands, where abandoned burrows dug by mammals such as ground squirrels (Spermophilus spp.), prairie dogs (Cynomies spp.) and badgers (Taxidea taxus) are available.
Black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludoviscianus) and Richardson's ground squirrel (Spermophilus richardsonii) colonies provide the primary and secondary habitat for Burrowing Owls in the state (Klute et al.
fwp.state.mt.us /fieldguide/detail_ABNSB10010.aspx   (1363 words)

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