Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1920 — NO BADGERS IN U. S., HE SAYS [ARTICLE]

NO BADGERS IN U. S., HE SAYS

English Zoological Curator Call* American Belief "400Year Hoax.” London, England.—R. L. Pocock, ( curator of mammals to the London Zoological society, has discovered what he says is a “great hoax upon the Americans who for more than 400 years have believed they had badgers on their continent.” An American badger, brought here to make an "instructive comparison,” was put in a cage with some British badgers. The British btrigers slept all day, the American badger all night. Doctor Pocock investigated and decided the American animal was neither badger, skunk, stoat nor weasel. He said its skull and teeth were “wrong” for a badger. It lacked the scent glvnd and its resemblance to the badger was so superficial he considered it of a totally different “tribe.”