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🦡🦡🦡 🍄🍄 🐍 ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ 🦡 Badgers are related to weasels, ferrets, otters, and wolverines.⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ 🦡 They live in underground burrow systems called "setts." On average, about six badgers live in one sett and they split the utilities. ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ 🦡 They do not like to be touched. No touching. ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ 🦡 Honey badger don’t care...that it’s not considered a “true" badger. It is a fellow mustelid, but it’s more closely related to weasels. ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣ 🦡 Badgers are in Hufflepuff.⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ 🦡 The badger can run up to 19 mph for a short period of time. I can run in short bursts too. ⁣⁣⁣ Image: Badger family emerging from the opening of its den at @badlandsnps. Photo by Glenda Mueller (sharetheexperience.org)⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ #badlandsnationalpark #southdakota #badgerbadgerbadger #hufflepuffpride