Abstract
A recent report shows that tooth wear in Eurasian badgers can be used to differentiate four age classes (Hancox, 1988). However, data from known-age badgers in Wytham Woods, Oxfordshire (UK), show that the tooth-wear criteria of Hancox cannot be used reliably to age badgers from that population. This discrepancy may arise because badgers living on different diets have markedly different rates of tooth wear. Since such differences in diet are quite common between populations, and since tooth wear can be sufficiently rapid that some yearling badgers have heavily worn teeth, we conclude that the technique is unlikely to be of general application.
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