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Hog Badger

Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Order:Carnivora
Family:Mustelidae
Genus:Arctonyx
Species:A. collaris
Binomial name
Arctonyx collaris
Cuvier, 1825
The Hog Badger, Arctonyx collaris is a medium-sized, up to 70cm long, terrestrial mammal with a medium length brown hair, stocky body, white throat, two black stripes on elongated white face and pink pig-like snout.

The Hog Badger is distributed in Southeast Asia tropical rainforests. It appearances resembles the more common Eurasian Badger, but is smaller in size. However the claws on the front feet are considerably bigger, due to that fact that it has more natural predators than the Eurasian Badger. Other features that distinguish the Hog Badger from the latter are a longer, white hairs covered tail and white claws on their front feet.

The Hog Badger is an omnivore species. Its diet consist mainly of plants, fruits, roots and animal material. The Hog Badger is also nocturnal, preferring to forage around the undergrowth under the cover of darkness.

Widespread throughout its large range, the Hog Badger is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

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conservation status of a species is an indicator of the likelihood of that species continuing to survive either in the present day or the future. Many factors are taken into account when assessing the conservation status of a species: not simply the number remaining, but the
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Least Concern (LC) is an IUCN category assigned to extant species or lower taxa which have been evaluated but do not qualify for any other category. As such they do not qualify as threatened, nor Near Threatened, nor (prior to 2001) Conservation Dependent.
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Chordata
Bateson, 1885

Typical Classes

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Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates.
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Mammalia
Linnaeus, 1758

Subclasses & Infraclasses
  • Subclass †Allotheria*
  • Subclass Prototheria
  • Subclass Theria

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Carnivora
Bowdich, 1821

Families
  • 17, See classification

The diverse order Carnivora (IPA: /kɑrˈnɪvərə/
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Mustelidae
G. Fischer de Waldheim, 1817

Subfamilies

Lutrinae
Melinae
Mellivorinae
Taxideinae
Mustelinae
Mustelidae or Mustelids (from Latin mustela, weasel), commonly referred to as the weasel family
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binomial nomenclature is the formal system of naming species. The system is also called binominal nomenclature (particularly in zoological circles), binary nomenclature (particularly in botanical circles), or the binomial classification system.
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Baron Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert Cuvier (August 23 1769–May 13, 1832) was a French naturalist and zoologist. He was the elder brother of Frédéric Cuvier (1773–1838), also a naturalist.
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Mammalia
Linnaeus, 1758

Subclasses & Infraclasses
  • Subclass †Allotheria*
  • Subclass Prototheria
  • Subclass Theria

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Southeast Asia or Southeastern Asia is a subregion of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of China, east of India, and north of Australia.
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Meles

Species: M. meles

Binomial name
Meles meles
Linnaeus, 1758

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An omnivore (from Latin: omne all, everything; vorare to devour) is a species of animal that eats both plants and animals as its primary food source.
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nocturnality describes sleeping during the daytime and being active at night - the opposite of the diurnal human lifestyle, and that of those animals with which we are most familiar. The intermediate crepuscular schedule (twilight activity) is also common.
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IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data List), created in 1963, is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of plant and animal species.
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