Honey Badgers Are WAY Tougher Than You Think! 🦡 The Animal That Feels NO Fear

Can anything stop a honey badger? 🦡 It gets bitten in the face by a puff adder and is back hunting snakes five hours later. It walks into a beehive like it's a buffet. Its skin is so loose it can turn around inside it and bite whatever is holding on. And one of them broke out of a prison built just for him so many times, they named the place Alcatraz. This Feature Creature follows the honey badger through a Kalahari night shift (27 km, ten holes per kilometre, jackals and goshawks tagging along to steal), the wet-season snake menu and the receptor that makes cobra venom miss, the beekeepers' war and the fix that cut raids by two-thirds, the honeyguide story scientists finally checked with the people who would know, the fearless reputation vs what the researchers actually see, and Stoffel: the escape artist of Honey Badger Alcatraz. 😂 Now in claymation: Honey Badger Gets WRITTEN UP by HR    • Honey Badger Gets WRITTEN UP by HR 🦡 Funny...   ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 Twenty pounds of bad decisions 0:46 The Skin 1:44 The Night Shift 3:54 The Snake 5:08 The Hive 6:20 The Bird 7:44 The Reputation 8:52 Alcatraz 🔔 Subscribe, a new video every day:    / @feralfactshq   📚 SOURCES San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance Library: Ratel (honey badger) fact sheet SANBI, Animal of the Week: Honey badger Animal Diversity Web: Mellivora capensis Begg, Begg, du Toit & Mills (2003), Kalahari honey badger diet study (via the sources above) Colleen Begg, BBC Wildlife / Discover Wildlife: "Why are honey badgers so aggressive?" Drabeck, Jansa & Dean (2015), Toxicon; University of Minnesota — reported in Slate, "Biologists discover the secret of the honey badger's venom resistance" University of Cambridge: "Birds and the badgers" (van der Wal et al. 2023, Journal of Zoology) ScienceDaily (21 July 2016): Spottiswoode et al., Science — honeyguides and Yao honey-hunters, Mozambique Keith Somerville, Talking Humanities (2018): "Political economy of the honey badger" Legends and Legacies of Africa: "Stoffel the Honeybadger"; PBS Nature: "Honey Badgers: Masters of Mayhem" (2014) Jordan Schaul, HuffPost: the "honey badger don't care" video (2011) Tanks Encyclopedia: Ratel 🎥 FOOTAGE Creative Commons (CC BY) clips by their filmers: "Honey Badger in the Kruger National Park, South Africa." by Hayley Myburgh Safari Guide; "Honey Badger always has right of way" by SONDEL; "Rare Daytime Honey Badger and Garden Mongooses Caught on Camera" by Antics of All Creatures Great and Small; "Day 36 - Honey Badger in the fridge and more from around South Africa" by South Africa Today & Yesteryear; "ラーテルは仲良し【東山動物園】" by ゴリさんの動物園日記 2nd; "Honey Badger - Maroela Camp" by Simon Botes; "How the Hadzabe Tribe Hunts Honey in the Forest" by travelroute1993. Stoffel's story is told over file footage of other honey badgers (labeled on screen). Other footage: stock. #honeybadger #animalfacts #wildlife