AfricanHoney-Badgers

By: Destiny

Habitat

• Lives in holes that a bear can fit in

• Live in the grasslands and forests

Appearance

• Are black with a white stripe down their back all the way head to tail

• Fur is two inches thick and during winter it is four inches thick

• Claws are about two inches after they chew them off

• Claws curl if they don’t chew them off

 

Eating habits

• Follow their prey in case another animal kills it for them but kill their own as well

• Only hunt at night.

• Eat 60 different species like: mammals, insects, reptiles and fruit.

Behavior

• Are Awesome tree climbers.

• Cubs grow in their mother for only 6 months.

• Litter - 2 babies.

• Cubs don’t have hair until they are 2 months

• Cubs are also blind until 2 months

• Watch out for them in the wild

Pictures

Resources

• Zoo in the Wild www.naturalia.org/200/indexing.htmi

• African Wildlife Gallery www.sa-venues.com/wildlife/default.htm

• Ask for kids http://www.honeybadger.com/factfile/breeding.htm

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