AnimalsWoods
Badger Fun facts for kids
Meles meles (European badger); American badger is Taxidea taxus
The badger lives in woods and fields across Europe and eats earthworms, insects and fruit.
- Where it lives
- in woods and fields across Europe
- What it eats
- earthworms, insects and fruit
- How big it is
- heavier than a cat, knee high
Fun facts about the badger
The ones Sammy likes best. She tells them in the game, too.
A badger can slurp up several hundred earthworms in just one wet night.
Badger families rub bottoms so everyone smells the same, like a family name made of smell.
Badgers are very tidy, they drag old bedding outside to air it and use toilet pits away from their door.
A badger home is a maze of tunnels that families keep making bigger, and some are used for over 100 years.
American badgers sometimes team up with coyotes, the badger digs and the coyote catches animals that run out.
A badger's front claws are long and blunt like garden forks, perfect for digging soil.
Its black and white face stripes may be a warning that says, I bite hard!
A badger can run quite fast, but its best escape trick is diving down a tunnel.
Riddle
Can a friend guess it?
Read the clues to someone, one at a time, without saying the animal. How many clues do they need? Fewer is better, just like in the game.
I live in woods and fields, and I come out of my home when the sun goes down.
My family shares an underground maze of tunnels, and some are used for more than a hundred years.
My family members rub bottoms so that we all smell the same, like a family name.
In one rainy night, I can slurp up hundreds of earthworms.
I'm low and stocky with long digging claws, a white face and two black stripes over my eyes.
Sammy might be thinking of a badger.
In Thought Zoo, Sammy picks an animal and you ask her yes-or-no questions to find it. You'll find the badger in the Woods adventure.
Play the WoodsComing to iPad, iPhone and Android on 12 January 2027
