Lions do attack honey badgers as
a group.
There is also one
legendary film where a pair of
honey badgers face off against
a small pride of lions and are so
ferocious and relentless that
the lions eventually slink
off.
Honey badger known as
the most fearless
creature in the world.
The honey badger would
certainly try all of its
tricks in its bid to survive.
Not only would it be wriggling
around in its skin and trying
to bite for the lion’s genitals,
it would likely release its
other secret weapon – a foul
skunk-like stench from its
reversible anal gland.
Unfortunately for the brave
badger, the lion’s greater
size and height would likely
keep its genitals out of
reach, and the lion would
persist even after being
skunked.
The badger might
have greater endurance than
the lion, but the lion’s
enormous strength and
five deadly weapons – bite
and four cruelly sharp claws –
would likely be enough to
inflict enough damage to
overwhelm even the indomitable
honey badger.
The lion would take a lot of
damage, and would probably
do anything to avoid repeating
the experience.
The honey badger, also
known as the ratel, is a
mammal widely distributed in
Africa, Southwest Asia,
and the Indian subcontinent.
It is the only
species in the genus Mellivora
and in the mustelid
subfamily Mellivorinae.
Despite its name, the honey
badger does not closely resemble
other badger species.
Instead, it bears more
anatomical similarities to
weasels.
It is primarily a
carnivorous species and has
few natural predators
because of its thick skin,
strength and ferocious
defensive abilities.
The honey badger has
a fairly long body, but is
distinctly thick-set and
broad across the back.
Its skin is remarkably
loose, and allows it to
turn and twist freely within
it.
The skin around the neck
is 6 millimetres thick, an
adaptation to fighting
conspecifics.
The feet are armed with very
strong claws, which are short
on the hind legs and remarkably
long on the forelimbs.
The honey badger is
notorious for its strength,
ferocity and toughness.
It is known to
savagely and fearlessly
attack almost any other
species when escape is
impossible, reportedly even
repelling much larger predators
such as lion,hyena and
warthog.
Bee stings,
porcupine quills, and
animal bites rarely penetrate
their skin.
If horses, cattle,
or Cape buffalos intrude upon a
honey badger's burrow, it will
attack them.
In Kalahari Gemsbok
National Park, a honey badger was
killed by a lion.
In the Cape Province it
is a potential prey species of
the African leopard.
African rock
pythons,Nile crocodiles and
spotted hyenas also prey on
honey badgers occasionally.
Honey badger known as the
most fearless creature in the
world.
The reason is, they
have incredibly tough skin about
1/4 inches thick, which
protects them and helps to
keep injuries to a minimum.
The Honey Badger is
relatively immune to snake
venom.
First of all, that thick,
loose, skin with the layer of
thick slick hair, really
does a great job of preventing
penetration of fangs.
So in general, it's
hard to envenomate a
honey badger in the first place.
But if it is envenomated, it
has either special proteins
that counteract the proteins in
the snake venom, that make the
venom is ineffective
against.
The honey badger’s
skin is largely impenetrable to
teeth, stingers, and quills too.
Not only is their skin
thick, but it is also loose.
When honey badger get
caught in the mouth of a
predator, their loose skin
allows them to manuever and
squirm their bodies around,
then attack the pedator with
their sharp teeth and
extremely sharp claws.
They also have
incredibly strong jaws and
are capable of breaking through
the shell of a turtle.
The honey badger
also has the advantage of a
stinky odor that is produced in
its anal gland.
This smell alone is often
satisfactory to ward off
predators.
Honey Badger with
sharp claws, sharp teeth, and
jaw strength, put the perfect
position to fight the snake.
If a honey badger sees its
opponent such as a snake,
coming, it can often catch the
snake in its jaws and bite
until it gives up or loses its
life.
Meanwhile, the jackal is an
opportunist scavenger.
They usually just
watched the fight and then
ate the loser's carcass.
A hungry honey
badger is looking for some
food when it spots a den that
looks empty.
Curiously, the honey badger
goes in but it quickly runs
when an angry common warthog
boar scares the honey badger.
The badger tries to scare the
warthog but the warthog isn't
intimidated.
Instead, the warthog uses its
size and tusks to push and
attack the weak point of honey
badger, which is is the neck
which has the lowest layer of
skin and fat.
The honey badger quickly runs,
sensing the warthog as
tough.
Large packs of hyenas
are known to hunt honey
badgers if easier prey
aren’t available and will likely
succeed when in numbers – though
not without taking on damage
in a much more difficult fight
than they might expect.
The hyena’s greater
speed would allow it to
attack fast and draw first
blood, but that wouldn’t help it
as much as it should, given
the honey badger’s thick
skin and incredible
twisting abilities.
If the hyena were
fast and aggressive
enough to keep biting without
giving the badger a chance
to fully retaliate, it
could win by inflicting
enough blood loss to drain
away the badger’s
legendary fight.
However, if it made even one
mistake, then the badger would
very likely attempt its
famously dirty signature move
and bite for the hyena’s
genitalia.
Solitary hyenas are known to be
much more wary and the much
smaller honey badger has been
observed driving away single
hyena opponents with its
snarling ferocity.
Snakes are
smell-reliant hunters.
They pick up chemical
information with their tongues by
flicking them in and out.
Some snakes also
track their prey by sensing body
heat and ambushing or
stalking.
Once caught, snakes
use venom, constriction, or
a combination of the two to
subdue and eat their prey.
Most snakes rely on
stealth and ambush to catch
their prey.
Since they need external heat to
fuel their bodies, snakes
are slower in general and stay
inactive for most of their
day.
This helps them to conserve
energy for quick strikes against
prey, as well as eating and
digestion.
Bigger snakes, like the
anaconda, exclusively hunt
by ambush.
Snakes will hide, often
using camouflage, in
areas where they expect prey to
be.
They then strike out once
the prey is in striking range
of their hiding spots.
Once snakes have
caught their prey, they have
two main methods of killing:
venom and constriction.
Venomous snakes either inject
their toxins into prey by
biting or spit it at high
pressure from holes in the
tips of their fangs.
Snakes like cobras,
vipers, rattlesnakes,
and coral snakes are considered
venomous.
While venomous snakes
sometimes use a combination of
venom and constriction to
kill their prey, snakes which use
it as their primary killing
method, like boa constrictors, do
not have venom.
Constriction in snakes involves
pulling their prey into
themselves, wrapping around
the animal in a coil, and
squeezing.
While it was once
thought constriction
killed prey animals through
suffocation, constrictors
squeeze primarily to
stop blood flow to vital organs
like the heart and
the brain.