Secret lives of badgers revealed

The subterranean secrets of badgers have been revealed by a BBC film crew.

Over two years, tiny cameras placed deep underground recorded the comings and goings of a wild badger family.

While the animals have been well studied outside of their setts, until now, little has been known about their behaviour while underground.

Never-before-seen behaviour was filmed, including the badgers diligently making their beds each evening before leaving the setts for a night of foraging.

The crew also captured newborn cubs on camera, as well as grooming and fighting between the older animals.

The footage was recorded for a BBC Natural World wildlife programme.

About 300,000 badgers live across Britain, their tracks and trails criss-cross the countryside, yet they are rarely seen.

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i posted the thread about anglesey today, chocky. your article just reminded me that on our drive to anglesey from preston, there was a stretch of road, somewhere between the A494 and the A55 (near queensferry) that we noticed alot of roadkill badgers. the first one we spotted we thought it was a very large dead dog. then we saw another...then another.
we deliberatetly watched out for them on the way back home. over a stretch of, i'd say, around a mile and a half to two miles, we counted THIRTEEN dead badgers on the hard shoulder. an unusually high amount i would have thought.
there must have been a stronghold of badgers in that area.... though would that still be the case with all that roadkill???:(
p.s. iv'e seen badger sets before, down in cornwall, but never been lucky enough to see live badgers.

That is a very large amount of road kills. Seams most strange. :(
Unfortunately I have never seen a badger