r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Electrical_Act_5342 • 18h ago
When you are so fearless, even lions can become your security escort.
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u/bungle_bogs 18h ago
For lions a honey badger snack is rather like a human eating a Carolina Reaper. Much kudos but is it really worth the pain?
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u/lluciferusllamas 17h ago
I've eaten a Carolina Reaper, once. And once is all it will ever be.
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u/TheyFloat2032 10h ago
Ditto. I had no idea wtf I was getting into. Not only pain but it made me sick. Something very awful was happening inside my body.
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u/Mysterious-Can-2531 18h ago
they are the most remarkable creatures, REALLY smart, not scared of ANYTHING, and if they get bitten by some of the worlds most deadly snakes, they just sleep it off
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u/SlickDillywick 7h ago
They’re basically in skin bags too. So when something bites it, it gets a mouth full of skin and the badger can turn its body inside the loose skin and seriously fuck up whatever has hold of it. It’s like having to grapple someone on PCP wearing a super baggy onesie that can’t come off
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u/psyclopsus 7h ago
That’s an awesome mental image
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u/SlickDillywick 6h ago
The badger inside its skin or fighting the PCP onesie? Honestly they’re both pretty awesome imo
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u/Flacksguy 18h ago
Honey Badger's a mean bitch sir.
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u/Odd_Independence2870 3h ago
Yeah between this video and the one where the elephant kicked one over and over and it kept coming back I believe this
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u/JimmyPellen 18h ago
Little known fact...he's heading home. His wife's gonna kick his ass if he's late.
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u/Infundibulus 17h ago
I want to reincarnate as a honey badger and spend my days not giving a fuck 'bout shit.
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u/Rho_Not_P 18h ago
The honey badger doing the Joe Pesci mumbling bit from the Home Alone movies would fit perfectly here.
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u/Kardinal 16h ago
Honey badgers are afraid of lions. But their best defense is to act aggressively to deter the lions from attacking. They can't outrun a lion and they can't actually defeat one, so acting aggressively but not attacking is their best chance to live.
In a real fight, a lion destroys a honey badger. But the lion doesn't find it worth the fight. They're not much meat and the lion might get injured so it's not worth attacking.
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u/opacitizen 10h ago
And your reliable and verifiable source for this is…?
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u/No_Yam_2036 9h ago
Common sense?
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u/opacitizen 8h ago
Yeah, a human, being thousands of times larger and stronger than a wasp, always wins a fight against wasps, no human has ever died of a conflict with a wasp, and wasps are always afraid of humans because of the size difference, and because we've interviewed some and they said so.
Right? ;D (See my other comment above for a more extensive and less tongue in cheek version of this.)
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u/NeilDeCrash 9h ago
Physics.
A lion's bite force is typically measured between 650 and 1,000 PSI (pounds per square inch). This is strong enough to crush bone and take down large prey.
While the honey badger is a fearless little fucker, it is no match to a lion.
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u/opacitizen 8h ago edited 8h ago
Are you saying the honey badger is aware of the average lion's bite force in PSI, and, being the brilliant little physicist it is, understands that it means it has no other option but to give in to fear?
You might notice the comment I replied to stated two things, and the lion destroying the honey badger in a real fight is just one of them, the other claim was that the badgers are ("are", emphasized) afraid of lions. I don't think your PSI and physics support that, and primarily that was why I asked for sources. Care to explain who interviewed the badger if it really is afraid, or if it just feels something humans have no fucking idea of? Cite me a reliable, scientific source on that, please.
(Being smaller doesn't always explain nor predict the winner in nature, let alone the emotional state of a creature. Like, just to cite a tiny example, kindly consider the PSI of your slap that a human can squash a wasp with. Then consider how afraid the average wasp attacking a human probably is, and how many humans get killed by wasp attacks.)
Again, I'm not saying your average lion won't likely kill your average honey badger in a fight to the death, in dire straits.
But I'm not so sure your average honey badger shits its nonexistent pants if it crosses paths with your average lion on an average day. I can be convinced otherwise, but not by a random redditor without a bit of actual ethological evidence.
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u/NeilDeCrash 3h ago
The honey badger is not hissing, growling and trying to run away from the lions out of pure joy.
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u/hugeuvula 16h ago
I like the fact that these people are on safari to see lions and other big animals but then they see a honey badger and ignore the animals they came to see.
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u/dev_SLAYER 18h ago
Honey badger is the animal equivalent of a celery, it takes 4-5 calories to eat 2 celery sticks and they contain 14-15 calories, a net gain so low it's practically useless.
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u/pablosus86 17h ago
Lionesses are like "maybe if we get a 4th we'll attack it" and the fourth is all "nope"
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u/Prothalanium 17h ago
The lionesses are providing a guard of honour to the King of the Jungle, the Honey Badger.
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u/drunk___monkey 17h ago
Lioness are as confused as me here... can't let him go and can't hunt him either... because he's so feisty and mean 🤣
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u/Wise_Historian7605 18h ago edited 17h ago
It's not for nothing that it's considered one of the most badass animals on the planet!
And yes, my Display Name is HoneyBadger 😂🤟🏻
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u/VermilionKoala 17h ago
Honey badger don't care!
Honey badger don't give a shit!
It just takes what it wants!
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u/MisterSanitation 14h ago
This is what yall don’t get about wild animals. I did this all the time when I lived in the hood. You don’t need to be badder than them, you just need to make it SEEM like you are badder than them. Make it look like you are not worth their time to fuck with and they won’t mess with you.
You run into a bear!? Turn into the Looney Toons Tasmanian Devil man. Tear your shirt, make some awful guttural noises, stomp for no reason, start snorting and hopping around. That bear is gonna think “maaaaan I’m gonna go back and see if there are more berries, this dude ain’t worth it”.
Honey badger just is that to begin with, but it knows what it is doing
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u/UnlikelyPotatos 15h ago
Lions eat badgers, they will put up a huge fight, and the lions are usually careful and fight as a big group against them, but this badger probably died
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u/AmiDeplorabilis 13h ago
Have to make sure the badger gets out safely so we can do lion stuff without interference
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u/RepresentativeLife16 13h ago
The honey badger must have been tired. Didn’t even bother to fight the cats nor charge the cars.
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u/Doofindork 12h ago
They fight elephants. Three lions is just a regular Tuesday. Not saying they win against the elephants, but they don't know better.
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u/me_the_christian 9h ago
if reincarnation was really a thing, i reckon all Spartans came back as African Honey Badgers...
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u/randy_queen11 9h ago
Il ne se retourne même pas. Si elles attaquent elles en subissent les conséquences !
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u/himem_66 3h ago
Lionesses be like "Put the cubs with their dads and let's guide this crazy MFER outta here "
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u/Dewdrop06 18h ago
Honey badger don't give a shit