Death Of A Honey Badger

I intended this video to debunk the myth that honey badgers are indestructible apex predators, while also showing why animals that can kill them would rather avoid them. Honey Badgers are very difficult to kill, especially by the suffocating kill-bite method used by the big cats, since the skin about a Honey Badger’s neck is both very loose and very tough. Rapid disembowelment as practiced by painted dogs and spotted hyenas would yield better, faster results, as the Honey Badger’s underside is its most vulnerable area. There are a number of videos touted as showing a Honey Badger “owning“ lions. But these show a honey badger managing to startle lions so much that the two animals never come to blows. Here are two videos of honey badger actually battling lions: Without giving away what happens, I think they make the same point as I wanted to: very difficult to kill, but perhaps undesirable as prey. This is from the documentary “Snake Killers: Honey Badgers of the Kalahari,“ which is on youtube at . I added the opening and closing comments, as well as the subtitles.