North American Badger
Taxidea taxus
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Kingdom: Animalia
The badger is multi-cellular
It is a heterotroph
It ingests and digests its own food
Body is made up of cells grouped into tissue
The badger reproduces sexually
capable of rapid complex movements
Phylum: chordata
They possess a structure called a notochord
The notochord is a rod that extends most of the body length
They have segmented muscles
Class: mammalia
Mammals have hair
the hair is made of protein called keratin
feed newborns with milk
four-chamber heart
order: carnivora
Sharp teeth for eating
Remarkable burst of speed
Flesh eating
Family: mustelidae
Genius and species: taxidiinae
work cited
Shefferly, N. 1999. "Taxidea taxus" (On-line), Animal Diversity Web. Accessed February 11, 2004 at http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Taxidea_taxus.html. A
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