In many **, we can see the picture of the honey badger angrily scolding lions and hyenas.
You know, the average weight of the honey badger is only 8 12 kilograms, but it dares to argue with the lion hyena, therefore, the honey badger is called "the most courageous animal in the world" by netizens, not only took the nickname of "flat-headed brother", but also invented such words and phrases as "Africa is not chaotic, flat-headed has the final say".
What are the real skills of honey badgers?
The honey badger is mainly found in the sub-Saharan African continent, the Arabian Peninsula and South Asia, and is the only species in the Mustelidae honey badger subfamily, with an average weight of 117 kg, body length 60-70 cm, shoulder height 25-30 cm.
Judging from the appearance, the honey badger has a layer of white hair on its back, hence the title of the flat-headed brother, the honey badger mainly feeds on reptiles, ants, wild fruits, berries, and they especially like to eat honey, hence the "honey badger".
Honey badgers are ferocious by nature, and cannibalism occurs in the young stage, with a survival rate of less than 50%.
1.Stink
When the honey badger is in danger, it will emit a foul smell in its body, which is very strong within a radius of 50 meters, and lions, spotted hyenas and other carnivores with superb combat power, their olfactory organs are very powerful, but the shortcomings are also obvious, once they smell the smell, the smell is not pleasant.
The mentality of the lion hyena will collapse, there are so many buffalo antelopes on the prairie, is this honey badger necessary to eat today?
Since you don't have to eat, let's go.
2.Thick**
The hair of the honey badger is very thick, when the honey badger eats honey, in the face of a large number of stinging needles, the honey badger is not afraid, and the hair is smooth, sometimes slapped by the lion's palm, in a good position, it can unload a large part of the force.
For example, when the lion's claws attack the heart of the honey badger, the body of the honey badger twists, which can make the attacked ** avoid the heart position, and the probability of fatal injuries is greatly reduced.
3.It is highly resistant to toxicity
According to the Internet, the honey badger eats a poisonous snake like eating spicy strips, even if it is bitten by a poisonous snake, the honey badger can resist hard.
There was once such a scene in a documentary, after a honey badger was bitten by a black mamba, he bit the black mamba to death before falling unconscious, and 2 hours later, the honey badger woke up again and ate the spoils of war vigorously, and there was no trace of being affected by the toxin at all.
Indeed, the muscular nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in the honey badger's body are difficult to bind to neurotoxins, resulting in the honey badger being able to survive with strong anti-poison ability even if it is highly poisonous.
In addition, some experts say that one of the reasons why honey badgers are so fearless is that they have concave lens structure eyeballs, which causes honey badgers to look at any animal to become one size smaller, for example, the body size of the lion seen by normal people is A, and the size of the lion in the eyes of the honey badger may only be 02a。
The truth of the facts may subvert your cognition, the honey badger is not as strong as you imagined, and the magic weapon to gain a firm foothold is actually "disliked".
As can be seen from the honey badger's "menu", there is no conflict between the honey badger and upper predators such as lions and spotted hyenas, so there is no conflict between the honey badger and most common carnivores.
In a few cases, honey badgers are forced to fight lions and hyenas, why are they "forced"?
Because of its short stature, slow running speed, low bite force, and poor flexibility, the honey badger cannot run away in the face of powerful predators.
Animals have the instinct to seek advantages and avoid harm, since the honey badger knows that it can't run away, the only way to survive is to fight, that is to say, the honey badger has no way to fight against the lion hyena, mainly highlighting its "not easy to provoke", so that carnivores are disgusted with it.
In addition, the honey badger has very little meat on its body, and if you want to destroy a honey badger, in addition to being smoked by the stench, if the skin is scratched by the claws of this little guy, the wound is easy to infect, and finally you may die due to wound infection.
Since there are no conflicts in the food menu, and the honey badger does not have much meat, the energy required to hunt a honey badger is very large.
It has been recorded that 1 female leopard took 52 minutes to kill a honey badger, 6 lions 15 minutes, and 8 sub-adult lions 20 minutes.
In short, the lion consumes 1000 energy to hunt a honey badger, and only gets 10 energy points, so compared to herbivores such as bison and antelope, the honey badger is a disliked character in the eyes of lions and hyenas.
In fact, honey badgers are very afraid of lions and hyenas, according to the data observed in the Isimangliso Wetland Park in South Africa, when the honey badger smells the smell of predators, it will actively choose to avoid it, and even hide in the burrow, until the next day it carefully comes out.
As for the anti-toxicity of the honey badger, in fact, it is not as strong as everyone imagined, in the vernacular, when the honey badger is bitten by a poisonous snake, if the venom dose is small, the success rate of detoxification during the coma is larger, if the venom dose is exceeded, the honey badger still can't bear it.
In addition, there are many kinds of snake toxins, and the honey badger evolved is the anti-toxicity of the African grassland, assuming that it is a, but when encountering B, C, D, E and other types of toxins, as long as the venom dose is normal, the honey badger will also be poisoned, so there was a topic before, saying that the two honey badgers were airborne on Dalian Snake Island, how long does it take for the honey badger to eat all the poisonous snakes, the answer is obvious, the honey badger will soon be poisoned.
The real honey badger is just an ordinary creature, and the "flat-headed brother" in our mouth is the product of deliberate editing in the Internet era, so look at it rationally.
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