By Daniel Heath Justice
Fierce, menacing, and mysterious, badgers have involved people as residing animals, summary symbols, or advertisement assets for hundreds of thousands of years—often to their detriment. With their recognition for made up our minds self-defense, they've been brutalized via hunters and sportsmen, whereas their organization with the mythic underworld has made them idealized symbols of earth-based knowledge and their burrowing behavior have led to their frequent persecution as pests. during this hugely illustrated publication, Daniel Heath Justice presents the 1st worldwide cultural historical past of the badger in over thirty years.
From the enduring ecu badger and its North American family members to the African honey badger and Southeast Asian hog badger, Justice considers the badger’s evolution and frequent distribution along its present, often-imperiled prestige through the international. He travels from usual historical past and existence within the wild to the folklore, legends, and religious ideals that badgers proceed to motivate, whereas additionally exploring their illustration and exploitation in undefined, faith, and the humanities. Tracing the advanced and contradictory ways that this attention-grabbing animal endures, Badger will entice somebody drawn to a deeper knowing of those much-maligned creatures.
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Yet these categories are under constant revision, rendering the taxonomic accuracy of any study such as this one temporary at best, as mustelids continue to evade easy classification. While skunks used to be considered part of the musk-producing weasel family, in a case not unlike that of the ‘badger as bear’ debate most researchers now place skunks within their own family, Mephitidae. Stink badgers (Mydaus) are now generally affiliated with the skunk family due to genetic similarities, a shared common ancestor and pronounced anatomical differences from other mustelids.
Taxidea has a solid place in the fossil record, as does its extinct Nobu Tamura’s rendering of Chamitataxus avitus, a prehistoric ancestor of the North American badger. 17 The early Eurasian badger gradually surrendered the increasingly warm, tropical regions of its extended range to the hog badger, which flourished in that habitat. 18 In short, as the land and plants transformed, so too did the mustelids, and the various badger-kin began the slow crawl of millions of years down from the treetops in pursuit of earthbound prey.
Taxidea has a solid place in the fossil record, as does its extinct Nobu Tamura’s rendering of Chamitataxus avitus, a prehistoric ancestor of the North American badger. 17 The early Eurasian badger gradually surrendered the increasingly warm, tropical regions of its extended range to the hog badger, which flourished in that habitat. 18 In short, as the land and plants transformed, so too did the mustelids, and the various badger-kin began the slow crawl of millions of years down from the treetops in pursuit of earthbound prey.