4 Badger-Human Conflict: An Overlooked Historical Context for Bovine TB Debates in the UK

Abstract

On fine evenings we can watch them dress their fur-like coats, or do kind office for each other, and search for parasites after the manner of monkeys. No creature is more cleanly in its habits [ ]…they scrape their feet in dirty weather, and keep their house inodorous by depositing their excrement at one place for many months and covering it with earth.