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Badgers Can Bury Entire Cows, a Scientific First

The badgers then feasted for more than a week on the underground meat.
An American badger has nearly finished burying a cow, a newly observed behavior.
Badger-cow

At first, Evan Buechley, a doctoral student at the University of Utah, was disappointed. He’d spent a lot of time and effort dragging a cow carcass to a wild area in the northwest part of the state and then staking it down to study what scavengers might come to eat it, and how. But it appeared that some creatures, perhaps a band of coyotes, had managed to drag it away.

But his

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