Badgers like bears, posses the habit of measuring their full height against some obstacles that allows them to stretch and exercise their claws. Elder stumps are badgers favourite scratching-posts, hawthorn, Pine and ash trees are also used. Quite often a trampled area around the scratching post indicates a type of dance area where they rush round and round with complete abandon. The remainder of the territory is treated with great caution. Scent trails are laid down with squat marks and after many generations badgers, well worn paths extend across the Clans territory.
All badgers belonging to the same clan scent mark each other frequently.
This common scent allows them to protect their territory, all intruders are normally driven from the beat The perimeter of the territory is marked by communal latrines well laced with scent marks. Badgers also communicate with sounds, from high blood curdling squeals to very low chuckling grunt like sounds. They can also make purring noises, one tone appears to be an alarm call. In fact careful study will identify a very large complex vocabulary. Back to top Destructiveness.