Badger Behaviour, Conservation and Rehabilitation

Badger Behaviour, Conservation and Rehabilitation
70 Years of Getting to Know Badgers
George E. Pearce
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£24.99
978-1-907807-03-9
01/01/2011
Hardback
175pp incl. 8 colour plates
216 x 138 mm
365g
“George has an extraordinary and instinctive understanding of badger behaviour”
Mike Hughes, Badger Trust
“George Pearce reveals an uncanny knack to be in the right place
at the right time to answer myriad badger questions”
Professor David W. Macdonald, Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Oxford
A fascinating insight into the badger’s world. Badger biology, life in the sett, rescue & rehabilitation, consultancy,
badgers & farming, and badger-watching with George Pearce – an expert on badgers.
George has surveyed over 700 sites, visited 1,500 setts, been consulted as an expert in 120 animal cruelty cases
and rehabilitated more than 100 badgers. Brought up on a farm, he earned his living as a farmer for 45 years.
Today, he is a badger consultant and one of the foremost experts on the British mammal he admires the most.
For many years, the RSPCA, police, veterinary surgeons and conservation groups all over the country have relied
on George Pearce’s knowledge and his instinctive feel for animal behaviour. Now you can share in his experience
and enthusiasm for badgers from his 70 years of badger watching and his vast professional wildlife experience.
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Contents
Introduction
1. A lifetime’s experience Marooned: a bundle of badgers
2 .Badger biology Scented signposts; What’s on the menu?; Follow the tracks; Clues in the latrines; Spoilheaps: mountains of
information
3. The world of the sett Secret world of the sett; Tunnels: DIY larders Reproduction Head over heels – but it gave me a clue
4. Badgers in the family Badgers – every one a character; Hiya, captivating Hiya; Bodger, the one and only Bodger
5. Badger rescue Road victim with a sad secret; Road victims: what you should do; A badger in a sack and the owl that
wheezed; Help them, but don’t hang on to them
6. Badger consultancy Ducks’ legs and raindrops; Makeway, makeway; Have they read the book?; Some of the things I am
asked to do; You name it, they’ll dig there; Sett closures and artificial setts; Tackling the big jobs
7. Badgers and farming Too much muscle; “Killed a hundred, he’ as”; Carry on farming!; Bovine tuberculosis (bTB); Badgers
and bTB
8. Badger-watching Sett-watching tips; Sit quietly!; The weather; Feeding badgers ; Seeing in the dark; Hides
9. Final thoughts
Useful contacts
Index