Omnivorous animal dog badger is what level of protection animal? Can its meat be eaten?

Dog badger is an animal of the family Mustelidae and Dog Badger. In the Mustelidae, the dog badger is large, fat, with a short neck, short limbs, short tail, brown back mixed with white or creamy yellow, and black-brown or light brown on the inside of the limbs.

Dog badgers have hibernating habits, digging holes and living, cave road length of several meters to more than ten meters, during which the branch road vertical and horizontal. The winter cave is complex and is a cave that has lived for many years. It is renovated and excavated every year. There are 2-3 entrances and exits with main roads, side roads and blind ends. The walls of the main roads are smooth and tidy, free of sundries and feces, and the ends are made of hay, branches and leaves to build nests. In spring and autumn, temporary caves are built in the hills and bushes near the farmland, and they enter the cave to rest during the day and go out at night to find food. this kind of cave is short and straight, the tunnel is rough, the nest is small, the grass mat is thin, and there is only one exit. The nest is about 3-5m from the mouth of the cave and 40-60cm in diameter. There is a cave inhabited by dog badgers. The mouth of the cave is smooth, the soil is loose, and there are footprints on it. The loose soil extends as far as 20m, and there are oval dung pits on both sides of the end of the loose soil.

Dog badgers are ferocious, but they do not attack livestock and people on their own initiative. when pressed by humans or hounds, they often make a short "feeding, feeding" sound, and at the same time they can stand up and fight back with sharp claws and canine teeth.

Dog badgers are omnivorous, feeding on plant roots, stems, fruits and frogs, earthworms, small fish, sand lizards, insects (larvae and pupae) and small mammals, and like to eat leftover food eaten by wolves in the grasslands. damage newly sown seeds and soon-to-mature corn, peanuts, potatoes, sweet potatoes, beans and melons during sowing and ripening of crops.

The badger is very clever and extremely good at burrowing. Sometimes many holes are made in the riverbank, which endangers the safety of the riverbank. So what level of animal protection is the dog badger? Can its meat be eaten? According to relevant data, dog badger meat is sold in some places, so its meat is edible. However, dog badger is a second-class protected animal in the country, so intervention prevention and control measures can only be taken to control its population in areas with serious harm to dog badgers.

Mr. Li Shiping of the School of Biological Sciences and Technology of Yangda University is no stranger to the badger on the west bank of the Jiangdu Canal. "this animal is too cunning." Li Shiping said that the skill that dog badgers are best at is drilling holes. If you want to catch it, when one hole is blocked, the badger may have escaped from the other.

Li Shiping said that even if all the holes are blocked, it is possible for the badger to dig a new exit and run away in a very short time, because it can drill the hole too fast.

"there is no good way to deal with it. It is too clever and better than a weasel." Li Shiping said that dog badgers are omnivorous animals that feed on rodents, birds, snakes, frogs, fish, shrimp, earthworms and plant fruits such as wheat, peanuts and corn. Due to loose soil, stable food sources and seclusion, dog badgers often choose to dig "bedrooms" under farmland.

For dog badgers, Li Shiping has been described as "very smart" in interviews. His cave is like a tunnel, very complex, and even waterproof and smoke-proof. Generally speaking, badger caves have multiple entrances and exits, and they are absolutely different, which is why it is difficult for badgers to be caught.