The honey badger is part of the weasel family, related to skunks, otters, ferrets, and other badgers. Its proper name is ratel, but it gets the common name honey badger from what seems to be its favorite food: honey. Yet what they are actually looking to eat are the bee larvae found in the honey! They are native to areas of Africa and Asia.They are omnivorous, have tiny ears and distinctive yellowish-brown fur on the upper side of their body, which isn't the case for most species of badgers.
Honey badgers do feature in quite a few nonfiction books for children, but they do not feature as the main character in many picture story books.
No comments:
Post a Comment