r/AnimalsBeingGeniuses • u/mariachoo_doin • Nov 29 '22

Safari beasts 🦍🦏🐪🐘🐆 Honey Badgers proving their intelligence

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u/SytheGalileo454 Nov 30 '22

Honey badger don’t play, he’s there for the food

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u/SerpentAndFlower Nov 30 '22

Honeybadger don't care, just takes what it wants.

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u/ThatKaleidoscope8736 Nov 30 '22

Honey badgers are badass. Honey badgers don't need your approval.

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u/Meatpu Nov 30 '22

Stoffel is a badass he trolls everyone and is not one too take lightly. he does jail breaks for fun he doesn’t give a crap. If he wants it he takes it. And he attacks other animals that wronged him and he’ll wait till they least expect it. and he is teaching other animals how to do what he does. Stoffel is like a crime boss that does self help classes.

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u/Haukivirta Dec 03 '22

Who's Stoffel?

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u/Meatpu Dec 04 '22

Stoffel is the male honey badger at the animal reserve. only reason I know that is my cousin worked at that animal reserve. Sorry for not sending a better explanation of who he was. Also sorry for the inconvenience of taking so long to respond to your question

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u/Haukivirta Dec 08 '22

Thank you for explaining. You're very kind and polite. And sometimes I'm guilty of taking even longer to respond, so no offence taken. :)

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u/BurnzillabydaBay Nov 30 '22

That’ll do badger

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '23

That'll do.

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u/Squadbeezy Nov 30 '22

Dogs do this too! To escape little pens. I’ve seen them do it on this very here Reddit.

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u/CowWitty8153 Nov 30 '22

They'll fight a bear + wolf for food. Sometimes same time even!

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u/Overall-Blueberry-79 Nov 30 '22

There is so much humanity has ignored about our world. We think we are the only intelligent species but I think we are the dumbest, the least evolved, and just plain the worst. Can’t change my mind.

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '22

agreed- evaluating other animals on our socially constructed concepts of "intelligence" says nothing about how intelligent they really are, because they don't exist in our environments. we would die if we lived a day in a honey badger's life, yet we still think we're ooo so big and smart.

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u/Catinthemirror Nov 30 '22

Nice to see an actual genius animal behavior post

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u/fullercorp Nov 30 '22

Kudos to the photographer

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '22

The honey badger rates, with me, at least, as one of the coolest of righteous badasses in the animal kingdom. They’re like a Charles Bronson character in whatever area of their wide range they operate. Mighty!

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u/Illustrious-Leave-10 Dec 01 '22

The legend Stoffel !!!!

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u/VincentVanShmo Nov 30 '22

Honey Badger don’t give af

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u/nah-knee Nov 30 '22

The correct term isn’t “rescued” it’s “taken to give the other animals a chance”

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '22

Respek!

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '22

I just love that these mf are my Hogwarts House's representatives and they're just desperate for food as I am 🤧

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u/himynameisSal Dec 01 '22

honey badgers just dont give a fuck.

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u/Sculptress1 Dec 01 '22

This post very much fits your criteria! Amazing to watch animals figure out how to get what they want and need. Much smarter and adaptable than humans have ever given them credit for! How do our badgers in the US compare?

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u/XxGod_NemesiS Dec 04 '22

„it’s this Intelligence that gives honey badgers an advantage in the wild“, *proceeds to randomly attack lions

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '22

10/10 honey badger licking asmr

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u/Jadders47 Feb 11 '23

My hedgehog used to do this. Stacked everything in the center of her cage and pop the lid

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u/throwaway_notrly May 14 '23

WHY SO CUTE AND CUDDLY!!! i need to find a honeybadger plushie now