#0170 · 🦊 mammals

Southwest Asian Badger

Meles canescens

🦊 Mammals 📍 in Europe, not in NL

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © mohammad javad rostami ahmadvandi · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Yaman Omran · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Lemur12 · CC BY-SA 4.0
4. © alonre · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Panegyrics of Granovetter · CC BY-SA 4.0
6. Iraq:© Arya Aras · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Άγιος Κωνσταντίνος:© Ιωαννης Μαρνιερακις · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Gökbel, QJGJ+5C, 48600 Ortaca/Muğla, Türkiye:© hüs · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Bafra, TR-SS, TR:© Ömer Selim Kaya · CC BY-SA 4.0
10. Akseki/Antalya, Turkiet:© Mikael Bauer · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The Caucasian badger ( Meles canescens ) or Southwest Asian badger is a species of badger native to Western Asia and some islands in the Mediterranean Sea.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 391iNaturalist observations

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
391 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by William Thomas Blanford in 1875 (151 years ago).