TIL Tuesday - Badgers and Coyotes Hunt Together

Today's TIL Tuesday comes from a Twitter tweet I found intriguing:

A coyote and a badger use a culvert as a wildlife crossing to pass under a busy California highway together. Coyotes and badgers are known to hunt together.

□Peninsula Open Space Trust pic.twitter.com/oS9BL5JOoK

— Russ McSpadden (@PeccaryNotPig) February 4, 2020

Badgers are fair weather friends to coyotes: these multi-species teams are most likely to form up during the warmer months. During the winter, the badger doesn't need help digging sleepy prey animals out of their burrows, but in the summer the coyote's speed and the badger's digging make for a formidable team.