Badgers and coyotes hunt together. It's a thing. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service explains that “studies have shown that this unusual relationship is beneficial for both species. The coyote can chase down prey if it runs and the badger can dig after prey if it heads underground into its burrow systems.”
Recently, a unique sight was spotted here in Point Reyes National Seashore - a leucistic American Badger! You may think that it is an albino, but if you look closely, you’ll notice that its eyes are actually brown or black, not pink. Its nose also has some pigment to it.
Leucism is a genetic mutation where there is only a partial loss of pigmentation, while albinism is when there is a total absence of pigmentation. Albino creatures will look white (or sometimes pale yellowish) in color, with very pale pink or red eyes. Leucistic creatures can look white in patches or almost completely white, but their eyes will always have color to them. Just like this badger whose normally brown stripes are showing up more as a dark cream color!
Photo by David Kramer as he hastily pulled out his cell phone to get this photo while on a hike in the Seashore.
Dutch wolf in National Park Hoge Veluwe crawls through badger tunnel
This wildlife camera shows footage of a wolf on the Southwest Veluwe crawling through a badger tunnel with a diameter of 30 centimeters. It once again demonstrates that the wolf only needs a small hole to pass through a fence.
This fence is designed to deter wild boars and therefore not intended to stop wolves, but it does offer new insights into the inventive behavior of the wolf.