Badger Facts

Badgers grow to between 75-100 cm in length with a 15cm tail and adults weight around 8-12 kg. They typically live between 5-8 years.

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They are stocky, with short dark and white hair on the face giving the UK badger its iconic striped features with black ears tipped in white. 

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They live in mixed-sex groups of between 4 and 8 animals. A social group living together in the same sett is also known as a "clan".

 

Their diet is extremely varied but earthworms are the core of the badger's diet, often by as much as 60%, as well as slugs and soft fruits like raspberries and fallen blackberries.  

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Badgers mate at almost any time of the year but due to an unusual reproductive technique known as "embryonic diapuase" (delayed implantation) they have only one litter a year. Litter sizes range from 1 to 5 cubs, with 2 or 3 the common number. 

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