Sunday, August 13, 2017

Gangwon Animals: Meles leucurus


I just finished working at an ESL/biology camp in central Gangwon Province, South Korea and will share a few animals sighted there over the next few weeks. Here are some Asian Badgers and they should be standing in front of their burrow. We have several minutes of game camera footage but I am not sure of the burrow is obvious in this still.

Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Order:Carnivora
Suborder:Caniformia
Family:Mustelidae
Subfamily:Mustelinae
Genus:Meles
Species:M. leucurus
The honey badger of "don't give a f---" fame belongs to a different sub-family:
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Clade:Synapsida
Class:Mammalia
Order:Carnivora
Suborder:Caniformia
Family:Mustelidae
Subfamily:Mellivorinae
[2]
Genus:Mellivora
Storr, 1780
Species:M. capensis
I remark on this only because it was a discussion topic at the camp.

The game cameras used are pretty cool: Moultrie.


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