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01:30 Lions do attack honey badgers as a group.
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01:39 There is also one legendary film where a pair of honey badgers face off against a small pride of lions and are so ferocious and relentless that the lions eventually slink off.
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01:56 Honey badger known as the most fearless creature in the world.
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02:07 A honey badger would certainly try all of its tricks in its bid to survive.
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02:18 Not only would it be wriggling around in its skin and trying to bite for the lion's genitals, it would likely release its other secret weapon, a foul skunk-like stench from its reversible anal gland.
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02:36 Unfortunately for the brave badger, the lion's greater size and height would likely keep its genitals out of reach and the lion would persist even after being skunked.
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02:51 The badger might have greater endurance than the lion, but the lion's enormous strength and five deadly weapons, bite and four cruelly sharp claws, would likely be enough to inflict enough damage to overwhelm even the indomitable honey badger.
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03:10 The lion would take a lot of damage and would probably do anything to avoid repeating the experience.
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03:23 The honey badger, also known as the rattle, is a mammal widely distributed in Africa, Southwest Asia, and the Indian subcontinent.
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03:34 It is the only species in the genus Melivora and in the mustelid subfamily Melivorinae.
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03:43 Despite its name, the honey badger does not closely resemble other badger species.
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03:51 Instead, it bears more anatomical similarities to weasels.
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03:57 It is primarily a carnivorous species and has few natural predators because of its thick skin, strength and ferocious defensive abilities.
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04:18 The honey badger has a fairly long body, but is distinctly thick-set and broad across the back.
04:25 Its skin is remarkably loose and allows it to turn and twist freely within it.
04:31 The skin around the neck is 6mm thick, an adaptation to fighting conspecifics.
04:38 The feet are armed with very strong claws, which are short on the hind legs and remarkably long on the forelimbs.
04:45 The honey badger is notorious for its strength, ferocity and toughness.
04:51 It is known to savagely and fearlessly attack almost any other species when escape is impossible, reportedly even repelling much larger predators such as lion, hyena and warthog.
05:04 Bee stings, porcupine quills, and animal bites rarely penetrate their skin.
05:10 If horses, cattle, or cape buffaloes intrude upon a honey badger's burrow, it will attack them.
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05:18 In Kalahari-Gemsbok National Park, a honey badger was killed by a lion.
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05:26 In the Cape province it is a potential prey species of the African leopard.
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05:33 African rock pythons, Nile crocodiles and spotted hyenas also prey on honey badgers occasionally.
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05:46 Honey badger known as the most fearless creature in the world.
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05:52 The reason is, they have incredibly tough skin about one quarter of an inch thick, which protects them and helps to keep injuries to a minimum.
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06:03 The honey badger is relatively immune to snake venom.
06:07 First of all, that thick, loose skin with the layer of thick slick hair, really does a great job of preventing penetration of fangs.
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06:20 So in general, it's hard to envenomate a honey badger in the first place.
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06:27 But if it is envenomated, it has either special proteins that counteract the proteins in the snake venom, that make the venom as ineffective against.
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06:38 The honey badger skin is largely impenetrable to teeth, stingers and quills too.
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06:46 Not only is their skin thick, but it is also loose.
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06:52 When honey badger get caught in the mouth of a predator, their loose skin allows them to maneuver and squirm their bodies around.
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07:02 Then attack the predator with their sharp teeth and extremely sharp claws.
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07:09 They also have incredibly strong jaws and are capable of breaking through the shell of a turtle.
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07:17 The honey badger also has the advantage of a stinky odor that is produced in its anal gland.
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07:25 This smell alone is often satisfactory to ward off predators.
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07:32 Honey badger with sharp claws, sharp teeth, and jaw strength, put the perfect position to fight the snake.
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07:41 If a honey badger sees its opponent such as a snake, coming, it can often catch the snake in its jaws and bite until it gives up or loses its life.
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07:53 Meanwhile, the jackal is an opportunist scavenger.
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07:59 They usually just watch the fight and then ate the loser's carcass.
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08:11 A hungry honey badger is looking for some food when it spots a den that looks empty.
08:17 Curiously, the honey badger goes in but it quickly runs when an angry common warthog boar scares the honey badger.
08:25 The badger tries to scare the warthog that the warthog isn't intimidated.
08:30 Instead, the warthog uses its size and tusks to push and attack the weak point of honey badger, which is as the neck which has the lowest layer of skin and fat.
08:41 The honey badger quickly runs, sensing the warthog as tough.
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08:49 Large packs of hyenas are known to hunt honey badgers if easier prey aren't available and will likely succeed when in numbers, though not without taking on damage in a much more difficult fight than they might expect.
09:03 The hyena's greater speed would allow it to attack fast and draw first blood, but that wouldn't help it as much as it should, given the honey badger's thick skin and incredible twisting abilities.
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09:18 If the hyena were fast and aggressive enough to keep biting without giving the badger a chance to fully retaliate, it could win by inflicting enough blood loss to drain away the badger's legendary fight.
09:32 However, if it made even one mistake, then the badger would very likely attempt its famously dirty signature move and bite for the hyena's genitalia.
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09:45 Solitary hyenas are known to be much more wary and the much smaller honey badger has been observed driving away single hyena opponents with its snarling ferocity.
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10:19 Snakes are smell-reliant hunters.
10:22 They pick up chemical information with their tongues by flicking them in and out.
10:27 Some snakes also track their prey by sensing body heat and ambushing or stalking.
10:33 Once caught, snakes use venom, constriction, or a combination of the two to subdue and eat their prey.
10:41 Most snakes rely on stealth and ambush to catch their prey.
10:45 Since they need external heat to fuel their bodies, snakes are slower in general and stay inactive for most of their day.
10:53 This helps them to conserve energy for quick strikes against prey, as well as eating and digestion.
11:00 Bigger snakes, like the anaconda, exclusively hunt by ambush.
11:05 Snakes will hide, often using camouflage, in areas where they expect prey to be.
11:11 They then strike out once the prey is in striking range of their hiding spots.
11:17 Once snakes have caught their prey, they have two main methods of killing—venom and constriction.
11:24 Venomous snakes either inject their toxins into prey by biting or spit it at high pressure from holes in the tips of their fangs.
11:33 Snakes like cobras, vipers, rattlesnakes, and coral snakes are considered venomous.
11:40 While venomous snakes sometimes use a combination of venom and constriction to kill their prey,
11:46 snakes which use it as their primary killing method, like boa constrictors, do not have venom.
11:52 Constriction in snakes involves pulling their prey into themselves, wrapping around the animal in a coil, and squeezing.
12:00 While it was once thought constriction killed prey animals through suffocation,
12:05 constrictors squeeze primarily to stop blood flow to vital organs like the heart and the brain.
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