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A badger family that burys it's dead and creates a graveyardBill said Jul 22, 7:33 PM: |
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I thought this was interesting - death rituals in animals, and possibly a form of religious taboo and behaviors. His most moving moment in 30 years of studying the badgers was seeing a sow bury one of her young cubs.
Gareth said: 'It was a sight I will never forget. The baby badger had broken its leg and managed to get back to the set. Badger whisperer: Grandfather Mr Morgan, 68, has watched generations of badgers at the sett, and is known locally as 'The Badgerman' 'A few days later other members of the badger family began digging a hole a short distance away. 'Then I watched the mother badger come out of the set with her dead baby in her jaws. 'She carried it to the hole and then the others covered it with soil. 'The badgers never went near that area again - it was like consecrated ground to them.' Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1201329/The-badger-whisperer-Grandfather-accepted-world-UKs-secretive-creatures.html#ixzz0M2uUCqQK |
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