He just wanted a little affection is all

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medic joe

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One Fall day some year back. I was road hunting after harvest. Up ahead of me 1/4 mile or so. Here came two Badgers, coming my way so I stopped. Th lead badger was 1/4 larger than the lag badger. The lag badger was in a bad mood. I surmised that the lead badger was a male wanting to breed her. She the lag badger, wasn't having any of that. She chased him near 1/2 mile. He paused 2x & she caught up with him & bit him on the rump. Here (he?) is in pause mode.

 
Amazing pictures and experience medic Joe! Forgive my ignorance but I’m assuming she kept following him, nipping him in the rear end to chase him and his unwanted breeding attempts away?
 
Newpond0 said:
Amazing pictures and experience medic Joe! Forgive my ignorance but I’m assuming she kept following him, nipping him in the rear end to chase him and his unwanted breeding attempts away?
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Well I can't say for a fact of what I believe I observed. But due to the time of year. That is my best guess. I seen them a long way up the gravel road coming my way. So I stopped & got my camera ready. From where I initially seen them. Until the male dropped down in the ditch right in front of me. Was close to 1/2 mile chase. I've never seen this happen before. And I've hunted the gravel roads from Fall through Spring time since back in the early 60's. He would pause & look back at her. He would make a grunting sound as he looked back at her. His grunting sounded like a Hippo grunt if I had to describe it. He also made a whining sound similar to a canine. I'm in my 70's & I doubt I ever run across a similar badger behavior again. I would also guess that 1/2 mile was HER marked territory. Females rule the World, don't? haha
 
Haha, road hunting since the early 60s? 😲 Any tips or advice for the newer hunters on here (like myself) to share related to road hunting? I've seen you're posts about how foxes and coyotes bed with downwind hitting their backs while watching and listening to the downwind where they can't smell and it's pretty detailed stuff, please share more if you feel like it
 
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