Honey badger

I love all the image but the ones with all the highly detailes mann they are awesome, we had this time 158 entries in the Wild Life Challenge .... And two winners .. I hope to see you again in the next challenge Winners @Em93 @BJ-art

:) ah yes now that is as a very serious little mammal...tough like a wombat

Interesting...

Wow such varieties of species in SA

And a fabulous creation

When i was a wee boy of 9 ,i read Willard Price's African Adventure and in that book i rember the honey badger and the honey guide and have always been fascinated by their behaviour, a year later i ended up in the bush and the mangrove swamps of Nigeria, i got too see a lot of things that a young boy from ireland would never see ,and i never got to see a honeybadger because i was on the wrong part of the continent..,that was nearly fifty years ago, thanks Charlie for triggering the memories.

Oh, forgot to mention that I looked through the YouTube comments and someone posted and said they visited the centre 5 months ago in the summer and Stoffel was still there! Checking their longevity, it says in the wild, they only live 7 or 8 years due to predation and disease. But in captivity, looked after well, it can be 26-28 years and one was recorded to have lived 31 years. For that last one, careful records were kept too. Amazing!

Aw, thank you, Charlie. 💖 Yes, I heard about Stoffel years back and watched the video at that time. But thanks for posting this so I can rewatch it. I remember thinking Stoffel was my hero and he still is. I'm a bit of a snob in having trouble tolerating people who aren't smart and don't care to learn. I'm really the same with lots of animals, and the brighter they are, the more I like them. All mustelids (members of the weasel family) are seriously smart but I think Stoffel could perform rings around the lot of them!

Awesome! I got to see a couple of those at a small zoo. They put honey all over things in their enclosure and then let them out. We got to see them searching and licking!