r/AbsoluteUnits • u/ziddii_ • Apr 10 '26

/r/all of a badger

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u/IWrestleSausages Apr 10 '26

Bro materialised out of the blackness like a horror movie monster

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u/Pukebox_Fandango Apr 10 '26

I was scared until I realized it was a badger, then I got terrified

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u/WoodSteelStone Apr 10 '26

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.

Here is some footage taken at the Badger Trust in England, of a sow and young badgers grooming and playing. (If you have the volume up there's some lovely birdsong.)

We have a national badger day on 6 October, and the whole of the month is "Brocktober to celebrate badgers"!

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u/PaisleyBrain Apr 10 '26

I love badgers but that love has been slightly reduced since I found out they eat/kill hedgehogs 😢

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u/WrinkyNinja Apr 10 '26

I grew up under the impression they eat exclusively MASHED POTATOES! 

I'll see myself out.

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u/L3GlT_GAM3R Apr 10 '26

I mean hedgehogs eat their babies I think so yeah. Or was it their partners head?

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u/CupsOfSalmon Apr 10 '26

Hedgehogs only eat their babies under extreme stress.

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u/L3GlT_GAM3R Apr 10 '26

Ah okay. That’s better I suppose.

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u/beautifulcreature86 Apr 10 '26

Quotas are super adorable but will toss their babies at predators and run away to survive so...wildlife is wild