The coyote playfully pounces toward its new friend, a badger, before the duo trots off together into a culvert underneath a highway near the Santa Cruz Mountains area. “The coyote was definitely excited about the badger, and the badger was about as excited as badgers get, which is, ‘I’m going to walk with you and not growl at you,' ” Campbell-Smith said. An unlikely friendship between a coyote and badger was captured in an adorable video. Coyotes and badgers are known to hunt together. The animals work together to increase chances of catching prey, even if one ends up empty-handed. Every once in a while, videos of these animals hunting together make the rounds online, causing people to wonder just how this odd couple works. When it comes to dynamic duos, perhaps one of the most unusual pairings we’ve heard of is the coyote and badger. One coyote and one badger tends to be the norm, but two coyotes and one badger have been spotted. For example, at two sites in Central Oregon, Badgers and Coyotes hunted separately, while at a site in Southeastern Oregon they were often observed hunting together (Thompson 1979; Minta et … Badger-Coyote Interactions are Varied Although Badgers and Coyotes often hunt together, they do not always do so. Footage showing a coyote and badger working and playing together may seem like a strange sight, but the pairing is an example of mutual arrangement where species work together to the benefit of both. A viral coyote-badger video demonstrates the incredible complexity of nature A behavioral ecologist breaks down the importance of an adorable wildlife clip. A coyote and a badger use a culvert as a wildlife crossing to pass under a busy California highway together.