Badger

Badgers are also made for digging burrows, with their squat, low-to-the-ground bodies and long, strong claws. The typical traits of badgers, which include a long head, nose, and small ears, are those of weasels. The only places where they are not present are in South America, Australia, the Arctic, and Antarctica. Badgers can live alone or in cetes, or family groups, in their burrows, which are referred to as setts.

The badger sett is similar to prairie dog burrows in that it contains numerous entrances and interconnecting tunnels. The tunnels, which have rooms for caring for infants or sleeping, can be as long as 980 feet and as deep as 6.6 feet. Because of the badger's broad bulk, the tunnels are spacious. At the entrances to a sett, trash like old bedding or even the ancient bones of dead badgers are frequently discovered piled high. There is often one large sett with a number of satellite setts around it. In places where it gets very cold, badgers dig sleeping chambers beneath the frost line, and a number of them will sleep in the same chamber for warmth.