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More like a Wolverine!

Honey badgers are not actually badgers at all! Although they (loosely) resemble the badgers that are commonly seen in Europe they share very few characteristics to the reserved nocturnal creatures except similar size and being black and white in colour. Their real name is Mellivora capensis, which translates to “honey eater of the cape” and are actually more closely related to the Wolverine than anything else.

The honey badger is famous 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 and hyena!

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Normally animals with the reputation of being brutish, fearless or ferocious come with an air of being ‘not the sharpest tool in the shed’. Honey Badgers, however, break the mould. So intelligent that they have been known to use tools, as documented in a famous video online from a research centre in South Africa, which revealed the use of sticks, rakes, mud and stones to aid their escape. This remarkable behaviour has also been witnessed in the wild with the likes of rocks being used to smash open ostrich eggs and poke sticks into termite mounds.

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