Are Devon’s road-wrecking badgers a match for the German cows who blew up a barn?

Badger tunnels under a road in Braunton have been blamed for a road collapsing. They've got some work to do before they belong in this rogue's gallery of chaos-causing creatures

We are destroying their homes and their kin so it was, perhaps, only a matter of time before the animals started fighting back. Until evolution gives them opposable thumbs, they have to use whatever nature has equipped them with. In the case of badgers, this means digging. Perhaps sickened by the numbers killed on Britain's roads (an estimated 50,000 badgers are hit by vehicles every year), badgers have tunnelled under a road in Braunton, north Devon, causing it to collapse. It has been closed by the council "for the safety of the travelling public". It is far from the first incidence of animals attacking the human world. Here are some others:

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