What is the natural enemy of the honey badger?

Honey badger is the only animal belonging to the family Mustelidae. It inhabits tropical rain forest and open grassland areas. It lives alone or in pairs. It is active at dusk and at night. It rests in caves during the day. It is fierce and has strong survival. So what is the natural enemy of honey badger?

1. The growth habits of honey badgers

The honey badger, which usually occurs in southern and western Africa and Asia, likes to eat bee larvae and pupae, and it will rush directly into the hive regardless of its own safety-this often unfortunately leads to its death. The honey badger can kill juvenile Nile crocodiles, and it is a very effective snake killer. It takes only 15 minutes to eat 1.7 meters of snakes. These animals are known to be fierce in nature. Even some cheetahs or lions will be killed by the honey badger in the fight.

Honey badger has a strong resistance to snake venom. It is one of the rare animals in the world that have resistance to snake venom. It is fierce, aggressive, brave, tenacious and highly efficient in hunting. It is different from other predators in that honey badger always preys to meet the energy consumed by its continuous movement. Other predators often rest after preying once. Honey badger has about 60 kinds of prey, from small insects to small rabbits. They can eat all kinds. A male honey badger can easily run 9.6 kilometers per hour, covering an area of more than 200 square miles or more.

Honey badger often preys at night, hiding in holes or rock crevices during the day to sleep, honey badger living in the African Sahara desert also forages during the day, good at digging holes, honey badger powerful weapons are its claws and teeth, is its ferocity, almost nothing afraid, African leopard caught it to take 1 hour to subdue it, because its fur smooth toughness strong, it is difficult to hurt the body, honey badger congeners have self-mutilation phenomenon, especially for cubs, only half of cubs can grow to adulthood.

Second, what is the natural enemy of honey badger

Lions and panthers are considered natural enemies of honey badgers. Honey badgers have thick fur and are brave. They will still march forward without fear of death in the face of lions. Facts have proved that lions will also retreat in the face of honey badgers, let alone other animals.

It can be said that honey badgers have no natural enemies, or that honey badgers have natural enemies. There are no natural enemies because honey badgers are not afraid of any animals they encounter, because other animals have no way to deal with them. There are natural enemies because lions have to eat honey badgers. It takes a long time to torture honey badgers to death. Honey badgers can bite lions without torturing them to death, so it is not a very cost-effective transaction. Moreover, the skin and meat of honey badgers are separated. Even the bite force of lions cannot penetrate their skin, let alone other animals.

This is the introduction of the honey badger, Guinness World Records named it "the boldest animal", this animal looks cute on the surface, in fact, will attack almost everything, and can know the enemy's weaknesses.