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Baby Badgers
Nestling badgers lost their home to gas welling drilling outside Bayfield, Co. April 23, 2015. Their mother did nt come back for them that night. Licensed wildlife rehabilitator Brenda Miller of Roubideau Rim Wildlife Rescue raised them to be wild. They weighed 11 1/2 to 14 lbs. at release end of July, at a ranch outside Ignacio, CO. In most states, it is against the law to have wildlife in one's possession without the proper permits. Wildlife does not make a good pet. Badgers are highly intelligent omnivores, with excellent hearing and smell, aggressive, playful, fast diggers with very long, sharp claws and teeth. Their jaws/teeth can easily crush chicken leg bones and rabbit thigh bones. Eating bones is how they get their calcium to grow their own bones. Please see successive videos showing their growth. Wildlife rehabilitation is all volunteer in Colorado, and most other states. Check out the video to the left to see these babies playing together! |