With powerful claws and a stocky build, badgers dig into burrows in search of prey, often reshaping the tunnels as they go. This digging doesn’t just affect prairie dogs—it also aerates the ...

The badger is an adept shoveler, so much so that it can outdig a man digging with a shovel ... It simply finds a rodent's burrow, and forcefully digs its way to the rodent itself.