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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. |
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