This is the ultimate honey badger website. It has been created by Keith and Colleen Begg, who carried out a long term study of honey badgers in the Kalahari, and continue to carry out research on the species. Lots of information from first-hand observations, and some great photos too.
This is the index page for the honey badger section of my Badger Pages website. From here you can access 14 pages full of facts about this species, including 2 Photo Files.
This in-depth guide describes virtually all aspects of the biology, behaviour and ecology of the honey badger. It draws on a variety of reliable sources, and the author\'s own observations. The first page describes the traits or physical characteristsics of the honey badger. Additional pages, linked to from a menu in the left-hand margin, cover topics such as ecology, social organisation, foraging and predatory behaviour and reproduction.
National Geographic featured honey badgers, and the work of Keith and Colleen Begg, in the September 2004 edition of their magazine. This page, along with the six supplementary pages which it links to, provides a flavour of what was printed in the magazine - a combination of fascinating text and some great photos.
A fairly detailed page about this species. A linked page has some super photographs showing the skull of this predator at various angles. There are also spinning skull movies, to view these you will need Apple\'s QuickTime VR software.
This article in "Africa\'s first online science magazine", Colleen and Keith Begg dispel a few honey badger myths, and explain why and how the animal needs to be protected.
A fair amount of information and several superb photos are available on this page. The photos include one of a honey badger digging, and another of a honey badger attacking a bees nest.
A TV programme on the honey badger entitled "The meanest animal in the world?" was shown in the UK in 1998, as part of the "Survival" series. This excellent page about the programme and its subject no longer appears on the Anglia TV website, but an archived version is available on the Wayback Machine website. Some of the images are not archived; this includes the background image which unfortunately means that blue text appears on a green background and is a bit difficult to read.
On this page of The Virtual Badger Sett website, there is a map and brief description of the distribution of the honey badger. There are links from this page to separate pages with a picture of and text about this species.
This page is part of a site created by the former President of Badger.Org in the USA. It features information and a distribution map for the honey badger.
A page in the Wildlives section of the African Wildlife Foundation website. Detailed text and a black and white photo of the honey badger - which turns into a colour version when you place your cursor over it!
This page, on a German hunting website, provides details of the weights and measures, subspecies, distribution and names in various languages for the honey badger. There is a sketch depicting a honey badger and a honeyguide.
A fairly detailed page covering the description, diet, and habits of the honey badger, including its relationship with the honey guide. At the bottom of the page there is the facility to send an MMS message or an e-mail to a friend, to tell them about this web page.
A page on the Hagerman Fossil Beds Critter Corner website. It describes Ferinestrix, a possible ancestor of the honey badger, but wolverine-sized, which lived 3.5 million years ago.
This page on a commercial fossil website features several photos of the skull of Eomellivora, the largest known member of the Mustelidae. Each can be clicked on to view larger versions. Despite the Latin name, it seems that Eomellivora is probably not an ancestor of Mellivora, the modern-day honey honey badger.
Pale chanting goshawks often follow hunting honey badgers, hoping to pick off any small animals which escape the badger\'s clutches. Here are brief details - and a photo - of one person\'s observations of this behaviour. A page from the website of the South African TV programme 50/50.
This page on honeyguides includes a reference to the oft-quoted stories of greater honeyguides leading honey badgers and people to the nests of bees. There is also a colour illustration of both species at a bees\' nest.
Brief information on the alleged relationship between the honey badger and the honeyguide, with photos of both species, taken from La vie des oiseaux (the French version of the book based on the TV series The life of birds by David Attenborough).
From the South African TV programme 50/50 comes this fascinating account of an encounter between honey badger mother and baby, and a couple of zebras. There is a photo captured from the video film.
A transcript of a TV programme in the long-running 50/50 series (broadcast in South Africa). This programme looked at the conflict between honey badgers and bee keepers, and the efforts being made to help both parties coexist.
This page features information and photos of some of the wildlife to be seen at the Moholoholo Animal Rehabilitation Centre in South Africa, including their honey badger. He is described by the photographer as \'adorable\', and by Centre staff as \'constant trouble\'!
A colour plate from a book published in 1906, depicting the black (or melanistic) form of the honey badger. This is not a separate species as indicated here, and may not even be a valid subspecies.
This link will search the files of the Natural History Photographic Agency for all their badger photos. Mostly they are of the Eurasian and American badgers, but there are a few honey badgers too and even a hog badger. The images include many superb photos by leading wildlife photographers.
This link will search the files of FLPA for all their badger photos. Most of them depict the Eurasian badger, quite a few show the American badger, some feature the honey badger and there are one or two hog badger and ferret badger images.
This page features photos of predators, observed on a trip to Botswana in 2002. All images can be clicked on to view larger versions, including the honey badger photo.
There are four photos of African mammals on this page. The third one shows a honey badger, running towards the photographer with its jaws open. If you ever see a sight like this, you might want to run rather than stop to take a picture!
This page on the website of the African Environmental Film Foundation provides some information on the honey badger, plus two photos. One of the photos shows a honey badger about to tuck in to a dead dik dik anetelope. There is also a link to a supplementary page with a photo of a badger inside a nest of bees, feasting on honeycomb.
A fair amount of information is presented here, though some of it appears dated. The alleged relationship between the honey badger and the honeyguide is described in detail and as fact. There are two photos.
This page provides brief information about the distribution, appearance, measurements, habits, reproduction, diet, lifespan and status of the honey badger.
A detailed article, with several photos taken from other websites, on the badgers of the world. After an introduction covering badgers in general, it gives brief accounts the Eurasian, American, hog, stink, ferret and honey badgers.
This is the Italian version of the above page. To get to it, follow this link, then select "Mammiferi Africani". From the drop-down menu of animal names that then appears, select "Tasso del miele".
