The Asian badger, Meles leucurus, also known as the sand badger, is a badger native to Mongolia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, the Korean Peninsula and Russia. It is mostly lighter in colour than the European badger, with brown rather than black facial stripes, and appears to be the smallest of the three Meles badgers, with a body mass of 3.5 to 9 kilograms and a length of 50 to 70 centimetres. It lives at elevations up to 4,000 metres in the Ural Mountains, the Tian Shan and the Tibetan Plateau, preferring open deciduous woodland and adjacent pastureland but also using coniferous and mixed woodland, shrubland and steppe, and it sometimes enters suburban areas. It is usually fossorial but occasionally climbs trees. It is legally hunted in China, Russia and Mongolia, and in South Korea it is used in traditional medicine, food and cosmetics, with badger farms there since the 1990s.
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The Asian badger (Meles leucurus), also known as the sand badger, is a species of badger native to Mongolia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, the Korean Peninsula and Russia.
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The Asian badger (Meles leucurus), also known as the sand badger, is a species of badger native to Mongolia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, the Korean Peninsula and Russia.
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The Asian badger (Meles leucurus), also known as the sand badger, is a species of badger native to Mongolia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, the Korean Peninsula and Russia.
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The Asian badger has a large range including the southern portion of Russia east of the Volga River and of the Urals, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China, and Korea.
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The Asian badger (Meles leucurus), also known as the sand badger, is a species of badger native to Mongolia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, the Korean Peninsula and Russia.
Section: Distribution and habitat
It prefers open deciduous woodland and adjacent pastureland, but also inhabits coniferous and mixed woodlands, shrubland and steppe.
Section: Threats
The Asian badger is legally hunted in China, Russia and Mongolia, as well as illegally in South Korea and within protected areas in China.
Section: Threats, relationship to people
In South Korea, the Asian badger is used in traditional medicine, eaten as food and used for certain badger-derived cosmetics.
Section: Distribution and habitat, where it lives
The Asian badger has a large range including the southern portion of Russia east of the Volga River and of the Urals, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China, and Korea.
Child Taxon Of: Meles, Section: Bibliography
II, part 1b, Carnivores (Mustelidae).
In Group: Mustelids, Procyonids And Other Carnivorans, Section: Bibliography
II, part 1b, Carnivores (Mustelidae).
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