{"id":437,"date":"2023-07-25T20:47:34","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T20:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/thedgblog\/?p=437"},"modified":"2023-07-25T20:47:34","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T20:47:34","slug":"the-saskatchewan-badger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/real.homesteadingincanada.ca\/index.php\/2023\/07\/25\/the-saskatchewan-badger\/","title":{"rendered":"The Saskatchewan Badger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an American Badger and they can be found in places other than America for some reason. Here a few Badger facts a Badgers diet is mostly smaller animals, Badgers are Nocturnal and live in dens with Tunnel and chambers, Badgers aren&#8217;t real hibernators but they do slow down in the colder months.<\/p>\n<p>With such sharp claws they use for digging, tunneling and sometimes defense you would not want to get a wave by a badger.<\/p>\n<p>Badgers can get up to 19 to 31 inches in length and 6 to 12 kilograms with and average life span of 4 to 5 years, the males are always larger than females.<\/p>\n<p>The American Badger can be found widely distributed around northern Mexico, the west coast of Canada, along with the west and central parts of the USA.<\/p>\n<p>The American Badger is currently endangered so it lives in the wild in Ontario but is facing extinction.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-438 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/real.homesteadingincanada.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Badger-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"stuffed Badger in old timers museum in Maple Creek Saskatchewan\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/real.homesteadingincanada.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Badger-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/real.homesteadingincanada.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Badger.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an American Badger and they can be found in places other than America for some reason. Here a few Badger facts a Badgers diet is mostly smaller animals, Badgers are Nocturnal and live in dens with Tunnel and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cool-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/real.homesteadingincanada.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/real.homesteadingincanada.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/real.homesteadingincanada.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/real.homesteadingincanada.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/real.homesteadingincanada.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/real.homesteadingincanada.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/real.homesteadingincanada.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/real.homesteadingincanada.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/real.homesteadingincanada.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/real.homesteadingincanada.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}