Texas Badger

Taxidea taxus berlandieri

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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