I, the honey badger, would like you to know what I eat, just in case.
I eat a TON! Really, just feed me some good food, and BAM! It's gone. We are generalist carnivores with an extremely wide and tall diet. More than sixty species of prey were recorded from The Southern Kalahara alone. We eat a series of small hosts including insect larvae, beetles, scorpions, lizards, rodents and birds. But my favorite are the lizards, because they lose their tails when I attack.
We will also catch some big reptiles like leguanas, crocodiles (one meter long), pythons (three meters long) and include highly venomous adders, cobras and black mamba. Larger mammals like the spring hare, polecat, and particulary juvinile foxes, jackals, and wild cats finish the meal. Of these, my favorite are the snakes, because it's just a work out trying to catch them alone.
We also eat honey and honey bee larvae. Plus, we rarely drink from water holes, so, instead, we get our water from the tsamma melon, a melon a bit like a watermelon that grows in the Kalahari Dessert in seasons when it is available. You see, the tsamma melon is basicly the watermelon of the desert, so, obviously, it has water.
We will also catch some big reptiles like leguanas, crocodiles (one meter long), pythons (three meters long) and include highly venomous adders, cobras and black mamba. Larger mammals like the spring hare, polecat, and particulary juvinile foxes, jackals, and wild cats finish the meal. Of these, my favorite are the snakes, because it's just a work out trying to catch them alone.
We also eat honey and honey bee larvae. Plus, we rarely drink from water holes, so, instead, we get our water from the tsamma melon, a melon a bit like a watermelon that grows in the Kalahari Dessert in seasons when it is available. You see, the tsamma melon is basicly the watermelon of the desert, so, obviously, it has water.