Eeeeeeew, it eats snakes?!

Imagine my delight to learn that the game parks we visited are home to some of the fiercest, nastiest creatures ever featured on you tube: the honey badger. I pestered our rangers and probably irritated the others on our safari with questions about where to find the honey badger. Unfortunately for me, the HB as I like to call him, isn't one of the tamer animals, posing along the side of the road for passing tourists (yeah, you know who I'm talking about cheetahs!). Few of the rangers have actually seen the HB themselves although their tracks are in abundance. Peace said the badgers, who come out at night, can stand by the side of the road and disappear into the darkness; you can pass right next to one without spotting it. Another guide, Ross, actually saw a HB (or two?) attack a lion. I wonder how that turned out.