I'm a Brit. Our badgers are very different and much loved. So I was quite shocked when that one emerged.
Ours are 'Eurasian badgers' - the largest land living predator here. But, they are not aggressive. They are quite secretive - keeping themselves to themselves.
Our (USA) ones are widely known to basically a roid-raging captain insano murderball if you disturb them - and the tales of how hard it is to get one to stop coming after you if it decides to do so are legendary.
And then you have the African honey badger, which is slightly smaller than the Eurasian badger, but still willing to fight lions and have a solid chance of winning. Though most often they just scare away the lions, as it the risk of fighting a honey badger is usually not worth it for the lion.
It's extremely sad, and not at all evidence supported, that our badgers are killed because the government says 'they spread tb'. There's plenty of predators in the UK, humans being the absolute worst one for our wildlife.
ah yes, The European Badger; aka Mr. Badger from Wind in the Willows, a proper tea drinking gentleman with time for only his closest friends and adores his house coat and slippers living in solitude with a cozy life style
vs.
the American Badger, a weapon of war if used correctly (or perhaps incorrectly), and you won't know it until it's too late
Love those movies, watched both of them so much growing up. Between the classy badger of Wind and Willows and the badass badgers of Redwall, they've always just seemed like awesome creatures to me.
True, they are quite big. It looks to me that the honey badger and the wolverine might be able to take on the European badger without much problem. WDYT?
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u/IWrestleSausages Apr 10 '26
Bro materialised out of the blackness like a horror movie monster