A Honey Badger And Her Cub

From 1996 to 1999, Colleen and Keith Begg, in what may be the largest study of its kind ever done, followed the lives of fifty-one honey badgers in their natural habitat in Kalahari Gemsbok National Park. In addition to the enormous amount of quantitative data the study garnered, it also produced fascinating glimpses into the lives of the animals tracked; if anything, the honey badger is more intriguing once the misconceptions and myths about it are dispelled.

This is the story of two of the animals the Beggs followed, a mother honey badger and her young cub.

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Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• nature
• animals
• wildlife
• honeybadger
• honey
• badger
• cub
• jackal
• gecko
• fox
• leopard
• survival
• Africa
• Kalahari
• Kgalagadi
• burrow
• hunt
• hunting
• death
• dying
• evolution

[ironmikelaw]

Its karma baby... the mother badger raided the foxes burrow and ate their young.. the foxes were helpess to stop the slauthger.. now the badger gets her burrow raided and can't stop her cub from being killed.... Karma. If you do bad things, it will always cme back to you.

[ScisMacGillicutty]

@ironmikelaw c'mon—all carnivores have to kill, and why was the honey badger's eating of the fox cubs any worse than its eating of small rodents or the gecko (the one it doesn't quite share with the cub)?

If this were true, all predators would have gone extinct. Also, karma applies when a living being is reincarnated, not while it's still alive.

That said, yeah, the mother badger eating the fox cubs was one of the most unnerving things I've seen in a long time. It still freaks me out a bit.

[thabithskit]

I thought it was that hawk from earlier. They showed it like 4 times and I figured it was up to no good.

[ScisMacGillicutty]

@thabithskit Interesting insight, but not what the tracker claimed to see—and I figure the hawk would have eaten a good portion of the poor little fella instead of just mauling him. I figure it was a dominant male in the territory, stamping out any young that wasn't his.

That said, I got pretty annoyed at the way the hawk was used throughout the movie (like just about everything else about the honey badger here, these are just excerpts from "Snake Killers: Honey Badgers of the Kalahari"):

[ScisMacGillicutty]

(Con't from below) it keeps showing up, and the viewer—reasonably—expects it to play some role in events to come, but it never does. Gyp.

The entire movie "Snake Killers: Honey Badgers of the Kalahari" is on youtube.com, and everyone interested in the honey badger owes it to themselves to see it. I hope the Beggs come out with a popular book (they have a bunch of scholarly work) another movie on the honey badger. They're likely the greatest experts on the honey badger alive.

[3rdsnowleopard]

So that's what makes the honey badger so fucking mean and resilient. They're raised like spartans.

[TheKmank45]

i laughed so hard when the baby honey badger fell in the hole and she was like what the fuck! What the hell you doing? get yo ass out of there!

[MultiTurtlesrule]

Spazzzzz atttttaaaaaaack!

[chrisfranz]

Double rainbow all the way

[ElnAlter]

@ironmikelaw you got schooled bitch

[mrthomas2000]

lol, it's being burried everytime its mother diggs a hole

[carracer1213]

@ironmikelaw Sir, you are correct. I love honey badgers but nature or not what the badger mother did was wrong and her poor cub paid the price , thanks to karma

[jtzproductions]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA little honey badger gets attacked by ants, mother badger dont give a shit, probably thats why honey badgers dont give a shit, they just learn to be that way

[jtzproductions]

@TheKmank45 Im laughing at that shit right now ahahahahahahhah

[melbyRick]

Awww... it's a cute little fuzz-ball who will grow into an absolute murder-machine...

[TheCesar112]

u poor honey badger cub i thought this videos was cute

[billismienalien4ever]

I want a pet honey badger!!!