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Too many holes! Why badgers are digging up Britain’s lovingly maintained golf courses (www.theguardian.com)

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Thanks to the drought, these black-and-white beauties are struggling to catch worms in the rock-hard earth. But there’s still good foraging on well-watered fairways and greens

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[–] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 43 points 2 months ago*

Good. Golf is a sport for rich twats that uses way too much mains drinking water

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[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 months ago

OH NO, not golf courses!!!

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[–] icerunner_origin@startrek.website 23 points 2 months ago

Because it's class warfare and badgers are on the side of the working class 🦡✊

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[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 44 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Great work you horrific little murder machines

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[–] gedfromgont@piefed.ca 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Wrong badger? You might mean the Honey badger?

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[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Honey badgers are indestructible, regular badgers are vicious little murder machines that spread bovine tuberculosis

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[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 child)

Is there much difference between the North American and English badgers?

I used to play a game with North American badgers.

Badger tag, first carry a baseball bat then find a badger. Badgers are aggressive enough that they will chase you, but if you spin around and scream while waving the bat, the badger will turn and run, and you can chase it. The badger will then realize that it has teeth and claws and an attitude problem, and it will turn around and start chasing you again.

Keep this up as long as you want, or until you have to hit it with the bat so you can really run away.

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[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 1 point 2 months ago

English badgers are a protected species with huge fines for messing with either their habitat or them, regardless of how much tuberculosis they give your cows by randomly biting them.

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