The Texas Badger is a pale, desert-adapted subspecies of the American Badger found in the arid grasslands and scrublands of Texas, New Mexico, and northern Mexico. Like other badger subspecies, it is an extraordinary excavator capable of digging down faster than a human with a shovel. Texas badgers often hunt cooperatively with coyotes in the same shortgrass prairie dog towns.
Habitat
Desert grasslands, shortgrass prairies, and arid shrublands of Texas
Diet
Prairie dogs, ground squirrels, kangaroo rats, and insects
How common
Uncommon
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