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After Badger Buries Entire Cow Carcass, Scientists Go to the Tape

Samer Haddad

Motion-activated cameras caught a badger doing something nobody had seen before.

A European badger in a meadow at dusk

Wildlife cameras left out in the desert recorded something surprising: a single badger burying an entire calf carcass over several days.

The badger then lived beside its food store for weeks. Researchers believe the behaviour helps the animal hide food from scavengers.

The footage is a great example of how cheap, automatic cameras are revealing hidden animal behaviour.