Honey Badger Houdini

[james_davis_nicoll]

"Honey Badger Houdini - Honey Badgers: Masters of Mayhem - Natural World - BBC Two" (Watch on YouTube)

Comments

[fengi.livejournal.com]

The couples moment is very romantic. Deadend Margo and I felt a connection.

[kate-schaefer.livejournal.com]

By the end of that video (damn you, James, you made me watch a cute animal video!), I was rooting for the honey badger. Here's a tool-using creature, an endlessly clever, improvising tool-using creature, who just wants his freedom and is just as endlessly denied. Wait till he learns how to use the video camera to monitor his keepers.

[seth ellis (from livejournal.com)]

I'm sure they have good reasons for keeping him in there, but some of this footage seems like they couldn't have got it without putting things in there with him and waiting for him to use them as a ladder, which seems like excessive teasing. Though entertaining, of course.

[agoodwinsmith.livejournal.com]

I think SOGP & I watched the program from which this is taken - and this is one inventive, intelligent, determined, undaunted animal. The problem is that Honey Badgers aren't called Honey cuz they're cute, they are called Honey because they luuuuurve honey. And they raid the hives of local farmers, which makes the farmers very cranky, and the farmers then kill all the honey badgers they can find. This fellow is locked up because if the farmers find him, that's it.

The fellow keeping this guy captive is also trying to devise fences and platforms and hive boxes and whatnot that can resist a determined honey badger's best efforts. So far: fellow zero, honey badgers 87 bazillion.

[galestorm.livejournal.com]

Is it just me, or does anyone else see that the honey badgers are smarter than their keeper?