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Now here's the page you've all been waiting for .... (drumroll) Breeding!!!!!!
This is actually my little bro.
I know that breeding probably wasn't what you really have waiting for, but, anyway, we don't really have a season for breeding like a lot of other animals, so we can have babies all year. But, we don't, normally, have more than two cubs at a time and in Kalihari we raise only one cub after a guestation of six to eight weeks.
Our cubs are born blind and naked, so embarassing, in a hole prepared by their moms and she will move the cubs to a new den every two to five days, by carrying them in her mouth (which actually hurts because even though we weren't very old we still have feelings)! We develop slowly with our eyes opening after about two months. Then we emerge from the den with our moms on short foraging bouts, or trips, at three months of age. By that time, we will have the adults' coloration.
The cubs' mantle will be whiter than the adult's. Cubs stay with their moms for at least 14 months, there's a year I won't get back, until we finally get independence. Plus, what's unfair is that the Eurasian badger can get independence at three months! This dependency, or torture, IS needed for learning how to hunt efficiently as well as digging and climbing, which I'm not sure why we need to know that. But, moms say, cubs under eight months won't have the technique and coordination. Techniques for catching rodents in their extensive tunnels and escape routes and killing poisonous snakes must be learned from their moms, because those little guys are tricky. Little cubs, within eight months, could be almost adult size and a son could be as big or bigger than his mom. So if you see two of us together it's probably not a ''couple", but a mother and cub out for a stroll even if one is larger than the other.
Our cubs are born blind and naked, so embarassing, in a hole prepared by their moms and she will move the cubs to a new den every two to five days, by carrying them in her mouth (which actually hurts because even though we weren't very old we still have feelings)! We develop slowly with our eyes opening after about two months. Then we emerge from the den with our moms on short foraging bouts, or trips, at three months of age. By that time, we will have the adults' coloration.
The cubs' mantle will be whiter than the adult's. Cubs stay with their moms for at least 14 months, there's a year I won't get back, until we finally get independence. Plus, what's unfair is that the Eurasian badger can get independence at three months! This dependency, or torture, IS needed for learning how to hunt efficiently as well as digging and climbing, which I'm not sure why we need to know that. But, moms say, cubs under eight months won't have the technique and coordination. Techniques for catching rodents in their extensive tunnels and escape routes and killing poisonous snakes must be learned from their moms, because those little guys are tricky. Little cubs, within eight months, could be almost adult size and a son could be as big or bigger than his mom. So if you see two of us together it's probably not a ''couple", but a mother and cub out for a stroll even if one is larger than the other.
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