Badger - ART PRINT - CHOOSE SIZE
Beautiful art print featuring a badger illustration. Illustrated by artist Michael Petersen.
Printed on matte, heavy-quality paper using our own printer.
Sizes B2 and A2 are delivered rolled with tissue paper inside a triangular cardboard tube with an attractive silver print. A4 and A3 are single-packed and delivered flat in a cellophane sleeve.
Exclusive frame - available to purchase.
Although the badger is rarely seen, it is widespread throughout most of Denmark. The badger is active at night and spends the daylight hours in its sett.
The badger is recognizable by its wedge-shaped head, short but sturdy legs, black-and-white facial markings with longitudinal stripes, and a heavy, pear-shaped body. Its fur is silver-gray on the back and black underneath. The badger is about 70–80 cm long and typically weighs between 12 and 18 kg.
The badger’s furrowed habitat is in the cultural landscape. It digs setts in deciduous or mixed woodland, scrub, or hedgerows. Besides the forest, a badger’s territory includes small undulating mosaic landscapes with cultivated land, fields, meadows, pasture and clearings. Grasslands, small towns and residential areas are also popular. Setts can form whole complexes with dozens of tunnels. These can be quite old, as they are passed down from generation to generation.
The animal’s gait is waddling. Unlike foxes, badgers leave distinct latrine trails of droppings behind them, which are often full of beetle shells.
The diet consists of earthworms, berries, fruit, small mammals, eggs, amphibians, nestlings, grains, beetles and wasps, carrion and reptiles. The badger roots around in the ground with its snout for food. Pigs show the same behaviour.
Badgers usually mate in spring but it can happen throughout the summer. The female is pregnant for about one year and the young are most commonly born in early March.
Did you know that the badger belongs to the mustelid family and is Denmark’s second-largest land predator?
