KENNETH GRAHAME’S OTHER BADGER [originally posted 4 January 2015] Although best known for The Wind in the Willows (1908), the writer Kenneth Grahame was also the creator of the short story, “The Reluctant Dragon” (1898). As a somewhat vexed romantic, and as a keen observer of both animal behaviour…
[Originally posted 20 April 2015] In North America and Europe alike, there are many stories–and a long history–about badgers in relationship with their canid neighbours–generally coyotes in the former, foxes in the latter. Not only have cooperative hunting and dwelling interactions been…
[Originally posted 1 February 2015] “What’s the deal with you and badgers?” It’s a fair question, and one I’m asked not infrequently by both longtime friends and new acquaintances. Admittedly, badgers are pretty far removed from my other writings and scholarship–and in some ways my badger interest…