The leopard and the honey trap: How predator didn't find this honey badger the sweet treat it was

UK Daily Mail ^ | September 23, 2014 | Sam Webb

[C19fan]

An unlucky leopard got more than it bargained for after trying to catch and eat a honey badger. These pictures show the leopard lamenting its overconfidence when the smaller beast lived up to Mark Twain's old adage: 'It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.' After spotting the badger from a distance, the leopard managed to rush down inside its burrow and drag it outside for what it thought was going to be an easy meal. But despite catching its prey by the neck, the tough mammal managed to wriggle free thanks to its loose skin.

[C19fan]

Honey badger don't care. I think some school the needs a new nickname should call themselves the Honey badgers. Pound for pound the toughest animal out there.

[Olog-hai]

I’d say it would be a tough call between the honey badger and its relative the wolverine. The likelihood of those two meeting in the wild is zero.

[MrB]

Dummass leopard doesn’t deserve to pass on its DNA to the next generation.

[Verginius Rufus]

Well, maybe if the Redskins are forced to change their name they can call themselves the Washington Honey Badgers.

[glorgau]

The Honey Badger would be a GREAT school mascot.

[Slyfox]

I see the mongoose video but not the honey badger video.

[peeps36]

I believe the university of Wisconsin uses the badger as its mascot. I just watched a honey badger kill a cobra or puff adder and start eating it. The badger looked dead about half way through its meal. He recovered from the snake bite a few hours later and went right back to eating the snake. I think it was on a list of the toughest animals on the National Geographic channel.

[William Tell]

Years ago a friend of mine described seeing a badger on the country road about thirty feet in front of his truck.

He stopped the truck and grabbed a length of pipe with the intention of killing and skinning the badger.

He got about halfway to the badger when the animal charged him at full speed and chased him back into his truck. He completely lost interest in having a badger pelt.

[Red Badger]

Live and learn. Badgers are not fun animals!.......look for a mice........

[MrB]

Wow... didn't remember posting that...
9/24/2014

(We don't need no stinking badgers)