Are there honey badgers in California?

Description: The Badger is a brown fur-covered mammal with short legs and low profile. The head appears pointed and small for the body. They have short ... Their powerfully built forelimbs allow them to tunnel rapidly through the soil and other substrates. They construct underground burrows for protection and sleeping. read more

Badgers have keen vision, scent, and hearing. Badgers have lived to be 26 years old in captivity. American badgers are solitary; European badgers are sociable. Badgers are good at digging burrows. Badgers help to control rodent populations. Badger photo by Tim Knight . More information: American Badger - Animal Diversity Web. Shefferly, N. 1999. read more

The American badger (Taxidea taxus) is a North American badger, somewhat similar in appearance to the European badger. It is found in the western and central United States, northern Mexico, and south-central Canada to certain areas of southwestern British Columbia. read more

(Side note: there should be no honey badgers in all of the Americas, apart from a zoo or something.) This page may be out of date. Save your draft before refreshing this page. read more

The American badger belongs to the Taxidiinae, one of three subfamilies of badgers – the other two being the Melinae (9 species, including the Eurasian badger) and the Mellivorinae (honey badger). The American badger's closest relative is the prehistoric Chamitataxus. read more