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Encyclopedia > Badger (disambiguation)
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Badger may refer to: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary is a Wikimedia Foundation project intended to be a free wiki dictionary (hence: Wiktionary) (including thesaurus and lexicon) in every language. ...

Characters & People Genera  Arctonyx  Melogale  Meles  Mellivora  Taxidea For other uses, see Badger (disambiguation). ... Binomial name Meles meles Linnaeus, 1758 The Eurasian or European badger, Meles meles, is a mammal indigenous to most of Europe (excluding northern Scandinavia, Iceland, Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily and Cyprus) and to many parts of Asia, from about 15° to 65° North, and from about 10° West to 135° East. ... Binomial name Taxidea taxus (Schreber, 1777) The American Badger, Taxidea taxus, is a North American badger, somewhat similar in appearance to the European Badger. ... Binomial name Mellivora capensis (Schreber, 1776) The Ratel (Mellivora capensis), also known as the Honey Badger, is a member of the Mustelidae family. ...

Things Badger is a fictional character from the animated childrens television series The Animals of Farthing Wood, based upon the books of the same name by author Colin Dann. ... Original Yes keyboardist Tony Kaye Tony Kaye (born January 11, 1946) is a British musician born in Leicester, England with the name Anthony John Selvidge (some mistaken authors spell it Selridge). He was the original pianist and organist for the legendary progressive rock group Yes. ... The Badger was a comic book series created by writer Mike Baron in 1982. ... A Badger was, in English, a term of uncertain derivation (possibly derived from bagger, in allusion to the hawkers bag) for a dealer in food, such as corn or victuals (more expressly, fish, butter or cheese), which he has purchased in one place and brought for sale to another... It has been suggested that Lawrence Dobson be merged into this article or section. ... Badger in a promotional shot for The Apprentice Ruth Badger (born 1978) is a British business woman. ... The Apprentice is a British reality television programme, in which candidates who have applied for a high-paying job working for Sir Alan Sugar, compete against each other for that job in 12 episodes. ... Sir Alan Sugar with winner Michelle Dewberry The second series of the UK version of The Apprentice was a television series which aired on BBC Two between 22 February and 10 May 2006. ... Sky One is British Sky Broadcastings flagship entertainment channel in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. ... The Big Idea is a cheap, cynical rip off of Dragons Den, which will be rubbish and everybody should avoid. ... Steve Badger (born in Kaukauna, Wisconsin) is a professional poker player and website entrepreneur. ... Hall and Woodhouse is a British regional brewery founded in 1777 by Charles Hall in Blandford Forum, Dorset, UK. The company operates over 250 pubs in the south of England, and brews under the name Badger Brewery. ...

Places A frame from the animation showing several identical badgers. ... Ubuntu (IPA pronunciation: ) is a widely used Linux distribution offering an operating system predominantly targeted at personal computers. ... The Wisconsin Badgers are a variety of collegiate athletic teams from the University of Wisconsin. ... Tupolev Tu-16 3-view The Tupolev Tu-16 (NATO codename: Badger) was a twin-engine jet bomber used by the Soviet Union. ... The EBG combat engineering vehicle, based on the AMX 30 tank, is used by the engineers of the French Army for a variety of missions. ... The Leopard (or Leopard 1) is a German designed and produced main battle tank that first entered service in 1965 and was used as the main battle tank for Germany, several other European countries, Australia, Canada, Brazil and Chile. ... Class 89, no. ... The article on electrical energy is located elsewhere. ... A locomotive (from Latin loco motivus) is a railway vehicle that provides the motive power for a train, and has no payload capacity of its own; its sole purpose is to move the train along the tracks. ... Logo of British Rail British Railways (BR), later rebranded as British Rail, ran the British railway system from the nationalisation of the Big Four British railway companies in 1948 until its privatisation in stages between 1994 and 1997. ...


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Badger - Wikivisual (1308 words)
Badger is the common name for any animal of three subfamilies, which belong to the family Mustelidae: the same mammal family as the ferrets, the weasels, the otters, and several other types of carnivore.
Badgers may not be killed, nor their setts interfered with, except on license from the government, with an exception permitting the killing of badgers in the attempt to eradicate bovine tuberculosis.
Badger baiting dog breeds are used to locate the badger in the tunnel, after which the diggers attempt to dig down to the badger.
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