Monthly Archives: October 2023

Number of toes

This entry was posted in Bushcraft Skills News Wildlife and tagged tracking wildlife on by

The table below shows the number of toes for common mammal species in the British Isles.  The list includes plantigrades and digitigrades but not ungulates.  Take a look at this post for more detail on different methods of locomotion in mammals. Species Fore foot Hind foot Badgers 5 5 Hedgehogs 5 5 Mice 4 5 […]

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Badger latrines

This entry was posted in Bushcraft Skills Wildlife Woodland Skills and tagged tracking wildlife on by (updated 243 days ago)

Recently whilst wandering through our beautiful ancient woodland I spotted a couple of  badger latrines.  This is great, it means that badgers are around.  So I put together this short video to show you what a badger latrine looks like (warning – there’s a close up!) and why they dig them. We talk about and […]