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© B Jamieson
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In black and white Here, the charity Scottish Badgers outlines the biology and ecology of one of the UK’s most distinctive but rarely seen animals, the threats they face, and the work being done to protect them. The European or Eurasian Badger Meles meles is a native British species of mammal and a member of the mustelid family, which includes pine martens and stoats. They live in social but territorial groups called a ‘clan’, which generally consists of a dominant pair and their offspring, but can include up to nine individuals. Badgers are nocturnal, and live in an underground structure called a sett, which is often made up of a number of entrance holes leading into a subterranean tunnel and chamber system. As a result, they 17
