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Introduction

Although this website is entitled "Steve Jackson's Badger Pages", the creation of the site would not have been possible without the input of a great many others. I would like to credit, acknowledge and thank everybody who has contributed to the site, in so many different ways.

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Sources of badger information

I have carried out extensive research, particularly online, to find information about the badgers of the world which could be used in the Badger Pages. I have acknowledged the sources of all such information on the site, through the references which can be found on most of the Badger Pages. Each reference acts a link to a simple page which gives details of the information source. While I cannot here thank all of the authors of every publication and online document I have consulted, I would like to make special mention of the books written by the late Ernest Neal (including Badgers, co-authored with Chris Cheeseman) and The Badgers of the World, written by Charles Long and the late Carl Killingley. Thanks also to Google, which has proven to be by far the best search engine for finding the many hundreds of web pages and other online material featuring information about badgers.

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Sources of badger pictures

I am enormously grateful to all those generous individuals and organisations who have allowed me to use their images on this website, and to those providers of the public domain images which I have used. I have made sure that all those who have assisted me in this way are credited on the pages where the pictures are used, with copyright information where applicable and links where possible. The only exceptions are the photos which I used to create the small images for the navigation links in the right-hand margin of each page. Credits for the original photos are as follows:

• Eurasian badger - © Steve Jackson.
• Hog badger - © Mr Sawai Wanghongsa, used with the kind permission of the Royal Forest Department of Thailand.
• American badger - public domain image provided by the US Fish & Wildlife Service; photographer Gary Stolz.
• Chinese ferret badger - photo used with the kind permission of Yushan Chen, < a class="printformat2" title="External link: Go to the website of Yangmingshan National Park” href="http://www.ymsnp.gov.tw/HTML/ENGNEW/INDEX.HTM" target="_new">Yangmingshan National Park, Taiwan.
• Honey badger - © Tim Davis / Photo Researchers, Inc. and used with the kind permission of the Northern Ohio Ferret Association.
• Palawan stink badger - © Peter Widmann and used with the kind permission of the photographer.
• Badger paw - © Steve Jackson.

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Sources of scripts and technical know-how

The process of creating the Badger Pages has involved many hours consulting online sources of information on HTML and CSS. There are far too many to list them all here, but I would like to thank all those people who have taken the time to share their technical expertise with others.

The creation of this site has also involved finding and adapting suitable JavaScripts and Perl CGI scripts. My thanks to all those whose work I have used; credits are as follows:

• Perl script used to generate text-only versions of all pages on this site - Betsie, the BBC Education Text to Speech Internet Enhancer.
• Perl script used for the Badger Pages search facility - Fluid Dynamics Software Corporation.
• JavaScript used to generate advertising banners - Nic's JavaScript Page.
• JavaScript used to generate the copyright notice with the current year at the foot of each page - JavaScript Kit, author Ronny Drappier.
• JavaScript used to generate the "This page last updated on ..." notice at the foot of each page - The JavaScript Source.

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Software used

The process of creating the Badger Pages has involved the use of a number of computer programmes. I extend my thanks to the creators of the following software:

• Microsoft Access - I maintain an Access database containing references to many hundreds of web pages, books, scientific papers and other publications on badgers, which helps me not only to store information but also to find it again! (Another Access database stores the content for the Badger Pages and produces export files for the generation of the web pages in conjunction with Webmerge, see below.)
• Microsoft Word - the word processor I use to write material for the Badger Pages.
• Paint Shop Pro - used to crop, resize and enhance images.
• Arachnophilia - my HTML editor of choice.
• Pad (Hesky Data Software) - my preferred text editor, a useful adjunct to Arachnophilia.
• Fourth World Webmerge - this programme pulls together my exported Access database content, templates created with Arachnophilia, and generates the Badger Pages in a matter of seconds.
• Firefox - currently my favourite Web browser (naturally I also use the Internet Explorer, Opera and Netscape browsers, to test the Badger Pages for cross-browser compatibility before the pages go online.
• WS_FTP - used to upload the Badger Pages to the Web.

Picture credits

Credits for the photos used in the right-hand margin of this page for site navigation can be found on the Credits page.

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