An unlikely duo, badgers and coyotes sometimes team up while hunting on prairie dog towns. Hunting at the same time can increase both their chances of success; with the coyote covering aboveground and the badger digging into the burrow system below, the prairie dogs have nowhere that?s safe from these predator pals. The two species are sometimes so comfortable with each other that even biologists must admit that ?friendship? between badgers and coyotes is not an impossibility.

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