Interesting Facts!
- Honey Badgers are able to dig quickly into hard earth. Within a few minutes they can dig a hole deep enough to hide themselves.
- A Honey Badger eats many different kinds of food including: porcupines, small crocodiles, scorpions, snakes, eggs, insects, even human corpses!! Basically, if they can kill it or come across the dead body of the animal, they’ll eat it.
- One thing that Honey Badgers use when attacking large prey is to castrate them and then wait for the animal to weaken from bleeding!
- Honey Badgers can devour a 150 cm snake in 15 minutes.
- The Honey Badger has a reversible anal pouch which has an incredibly strong, stifling odor. They have been observed to use this stench as an additional form of defense against large predators like lions.
- When attacked by dogs, Honey Badgers scream like bear cubs.
- It said that the only safe grip on Honey Badger is on its back of the neck.
- It has ears that are not visible. They have little internal ears that can be folded out as and when required by the badger.