What animal is also known as the honey-badger?
"deputy dean of Basra's veterinary college, Dr. Ghazi Yaqub Azzam, speculated that ""the badgers were being driven towards the city because of flooding in marshland north of Basra."" The event received coverage in the Western press during the 2007 silly season. In many parts of North India, honey badgers are reported to have been living in the close vicinity of human dwellings, leading to many instances of attacks on poultry, small livestock animals and, sometimes, even children. They retaliate fiercely when attacked. According to a 1941 volume of ""The Fauna of British India"", the honey badger has also been reported"
"Zoo, Birmingham Zoo (Alabama), and Tracy Aviary (Utah) in the United States, Chessington Zoo in England, Edinburgh Zoo in Scotland and Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia. Blue-faced honeyeater The blue-faced honeyeater (""Entomyzon cyanotis""), also colloquially known as the bananabird, is a passerine bird of the honeyeater family, Meliphagidae. It is the only member of its genus, and it is most closely related to honeyeaters of the genus ""Melithreptus"". Three subspecies are recognised. At around in length, the blue-faced species is large for a honeyeater. Its plumage is distinctive, with olive upperparts, white underparts, and a black head and throat with"
"and Darug inhabitants of the Sydney basin. Molecular study shows its closest relative to be the silver-crowned friarbird within the genus ""Philemon"". DNA analysis has shown honeyeaters to be related to the Pardalotidae (pardalotes), Acanthizidae (Australian warblers, scrubwrens, thornbills, etc.), and Maluridae (Australian fairy-wrens) in a large Meliphagoidea superfamily. Measuring in length, the noisy friarbird is a large honeyeater with dull brownish grey upperparts and paler brown-grey underparts. Its black head is completely bald apart from tufts of feathers under the chin and along the eyebrow, which is how it came to be so named. It can be distinguished by"
"mammals due to a relative rarity of well-marked harmful models. However, this form of mimicry is prevalent in snakes and frogs, where chemical defense has coevolved with distinct coloration. Still, mammals have evolved Batesian mimicry systems where particularly powerful or harmful models exist. For example, Batesian mimicry may occur in cheetah cubs. They replicate the appearance of a sympatric species, the honey badger (""Mellivora capensis)."" The honey badger has a white or silvery back with a black or brownish underbelly and grows to a body length of about three feet long and ten inches high. As cubs, cheetahs have the"
"Blue-faced honeyeater The blue-faced honeyeater (""Entomyzon cyanotis""), also colloquially known as the bananabird, is a passerine bird of the honeyeater family, Meliphagidae. It is the only member of its genus, and it is most closely related to honeyeaters of the genus ""Melithreptus"". Three subspecies are recognised. At around in length, the blue-faced species is large for a honeyeater. Its plumage is distinctive, with olive upperparts, white underparts, and a black head and throat with white nape and cheeks. Males and females are similar in external appearance. Adults have a blue area of bare skin on each side of the face"
"making use of a tool; the animal rolled a log and stood on it to reach a kingfisher fledgling stuck up in the roots coming from the ceiling in a cave. A video made at the Moholoholo rehab centre in South Africa showed a pair of honey badgers using sticks, a rake, heaps of mud and stones to escape from their walled pit. As with other mustelids of relatively large size, such as wolverines and badgers, honey badgers are notorious for their strength, ferocity and toughness. They have been known to savagely and fearlessly attack almost any kind of animal"
"in calming bees when raiding beehives. The skull bears little similarity to that of the European badger, and greatly resembles a larger version of that of a marbled polecat. The skull is very solidly built, with that of adults having no trace of an independent bone structure. The braincase is broader than that of dogs. The dental formula is: . The teeth often display signs of irregular development, with some teeth being exceptionally small, set at unusual angles or absent altogether. Honey badgers of the subspecies ""signata"" have a second lower molar on the left side of their jaws, but"
"Hog badger The hog badger (""Arctonyx collaris""), also known as greater hog badger, is a terrestrial mustelid native to Central and Southeast Asia. It is listed as Vulnerable in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species because the global population is thought to be declining due to high levels of poaching. It has medium-length brown hair, stocky body, white throat, two black stripes on an elongated white face and a pink, pig-like snout. The head-and-body length is , the tail measures and the body weight is . With weights regularly reported from it is one of the world's largest terrestrial"
"on both the state flag and seal. Honey bee A honey bee (or honeybee) is a eusocial, flying insect within the genus Apis of the bee clade. They are known for construction of perennial, colonial nests from wax, for the large size of their colonies, and for their surplus production and storage of honey, distinguishing their hives as a prized foraging target of many animals, including honey badgers, bears and human hunter-gatherers. In the early 21st century, only seven species of honey bee are recognized, with a total of 44 subspecies, though historically seven to eleven species are recognized. The"
"Brown-headed honeyeater The brown-headed honeyeater (""Melithreptus brevirostris"") is a species of passerine bird in the family Meliphagidae. It is endemic to Australia. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation. The brown-headed honeyeater was first described by Vigors & Horsfield in 1827. Its species name is derived from the Latin terms ""brevis"" ""short"", and ""rostrum"" ""beak"". Five subspecies have been described. The race ""magnirostris"" from Kangaroo Island has a noticeably larger bill. It is a member of the genus ""Melithreptus"" with several species, of similar size and all black-headed apart from this species, in the honeyeater family Meliphagidae."
"Yellow-billed honeyeater The yellow-billed honeyeater, or yodeling giant honeyeater (""Gymnomyza viridis"") is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family. It is endemic to Fiji. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is threatened by habitat loss. It occurs on the Vanua Levu and Taveuni islands. It was considered conspecific with the giant honeyeater. Both showed both phenotypic and behavioural differences. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found that they also differed significantly in their mitochondrial DNA sequences and suggested that ""G. v. brunneirostris"" should be promoted to"
"(IOC). Gould used Latham's name of sanguineous honeyeater in the 19th century, which persisted into the early 20th century. Other common names are soldier-bird (as the male appears to wear a red coat) and blood-bird. An early colonial name was little soldier. A 2004 genetic study of nuclear and mitochondrial DNA of honeyeaters found the scarlet myzomela to be most closely related to the cardinal myzomela, with their common ancestor diverging from a lineage that led to the red-headed myzomela, although only five of the thirty members of the genus ""Myzomela"" were analysed. A 2017 genetic study using both mitochondrial"
"that honeyguides guide the honey badger, though videos about this exist. Although most members of the family are not known to recruit ""followers"" in their quest for wax, they are also referred to as ""honeyguides"" by linguistic extrapolation. The breeding behavior of eight species in ""Indicator"" and ""Prodotiscus"" is known. They are all brood parasites that lay one egg in a nest of another species, laying eggs in series of about five during a period of 5-7 days. Most favor hole-nesting species, often the related barbets and woodpeckers, but ""Prodotiscus"" parasitizes cup-nesters such as white-eyes and warblers. Honeyguide nestlings have"
"the species level. The International Ornithologists' Union accepted these proposals and introduced the name ""yellow-billed honeyeater"" for ""G. viridis"" and ""giant honeyeater"" for ""G. brunneirostris"". Yellow-billed honeyeater The yellow-billed honeyeater, or yodeling giant honeyeater (""Gymnomyza viridis"") is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family. It is endemic to Fiji. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is threatened by habitat loss. It occurs on the Vanua Levu and Taveuni islands. It was considered conspecific with the giant honeyeater. Both showed both phenotypic and behavioural differences. A molecular phylogenetic"
"Honeyguide Honeyguides (family Indicatoridae) are a near passerine bird species of the order Piciformes. They are also known as indicator birds, or honey birds, although the latter term is also used more narrowly to refer to species of the genus ""Prodotiscus"". They have an Old World tropical distribution, with the greatest number of species in Africa and two in Asia. These birds are best known for their interaction with humans. Honeyguides are noted and named for one or two species that will deliberately lead humans (but, contrary to popular claims, not honey badgers) directly to bee colonies, so that they"
"plant material hidden in the outer foliage of a tall tree, usually a eucalypt. Two or three eggs are laid, 16 x 13 mm and shiny buff-pink sparsely spotted with red-brown (more on larger end). Brown-headed honeyeater The brown-headed honeyeater (""Melithreptus brevirostris"") is a species of passerine bird in the family Meliphagidae. It is endemic to Australia. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation. The brown-headed honeyeater was first described by Vigors & Horsfield in 1827. Its species name is derived from the Latin terms ""brevis"" ""short"", and ""rostrum"" ""beak"". Five subspecies have been described. The race"
"no peak activity at either day or night. The hog badger is omnivorous, its diet consists of fruits, roots and small animals. Hog badger The hog badger (""Arctonyx collaris""), also known as greater hog badger, is a terrestrial mustelid native to Central and Southeast Asia. It is listed as Vulnerable in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species because the global population is thought to be declining due to high levels of poaching. It has medium-length brown hair, stocky body, white throat, two black stripes on an elongated white face and a pink, pig-like snout. The head-and-body length is ,"
"Black honey buzzard The black honey-buzzard (""Henicopernis infuscatus""), also commonly known as the New Britain Honey-Buzzard, is a large raptor of the family Accipitridae. Standing around tall, the adult black honey-buzzard has a dark head and body, with striking white bands on its tail and flight feathers. When in flight, species can be recognized by its long wings and noticeably large secondary feathers. It is thought to be sedentary, with its range limited to the island of New Britain in Papua New Guinea, where it is endemic. Due to its remote habitat and tendency to remain in densely forested areas,"
"and the Maluridae (Australian fairy-wrens) in a large Meliphagoidea superfamily. Early naturalist George Shaw had called it the blue-faced honey-sucker in 1826. Other common names include ""white-quilled honeyeater"", and ""blue-eye"". Its propensity for feeding on the flowers and fruit of bananas in north Queensland has given it the common name of ""banana-bird"". A local name from Mackay in central Queensland is ""pandanus-bird"", as it is always found around ""Pandanus"" palms there. It is called ""morning-bird"" from its dawn calls before other birds of the bush. ""Gympie"" is a Queensland bushman's term. Thomas Watling noted a local indigenous name was ""der-ro-gang""."
"monkeys. The kinkajou's slender five-inch extrudable tongue helps the animal to obtain fruit and to lick nectar from flowers, so that it sometimes acts as a pollinator. (Nectar is also sometimes obtained by eating entire flowers.) Although captive specimens will avidly eat honey (hence the name ""honey bear""), honey has not yet been observed in the diet of wild kinkajous. Olingos are similar to the kinkajou in morphology and habits. However, genetic studies have shown that kinkajous were an early offshoot of the ancestral procyonid line and are not closely related to any of the other extant procyonids, to which"
"Honey possum The honey possum (""Tarsipes rostratus""), also known by the native names tait and noolbenger, is a tiny Australian marsupial. It is the only species in the genus Tarsipes and in the family Tarsipedidae. It is an important pollinator for such plants as ""Banksia attenuata"", ""Banksia coccinea"" and ""Adenanthos cuneatus"". Male honey possums weigh just , and females weigh ; about half the weight of a mouse. Their body length ranges from . Its teeth are fewer and smaller than is typical for marsupials, with the molars reduced to tiny cones, and a dental formula of It is one"
"Honey bee A honey bee (or honeybee) is a eusocial, flying insect within the genus Apis of the bee clade. They are known for construction of perennial, colonial nests from wax, for the large size of their colonies, and for their surplus production and storage of honey, distinguishing their hives as a prized foraging target of many animals, including honey badgers, bears and human hunter-gatherers. In the early 21st century, only seven species of honey bee are recognized, with a total of 44 subspecies, though historically seven to eleven species are recognized. The best known honey bee is the Western"
"Black-headed honeyeater The black-headed honeyeater (""Melithreptus affinis"") is a species of bird in the family Meliphagidae. It is one of two members of the genus ""Melithreptus"" endemic to Tasmania. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation. Despite its name, the black-headed honeyeater eats predominantly insects. The black-headed honeyeater was described in 1839 as ""Eidopsarus affinis"". John Gould described it as ""Melithreptus melanocephalus"" in 1844, likely unaware of its earlier name. Molecular studies show the black-headed honeyeater is most closely related to the white-naped honeyeater, and that their next closest relative is Gilbert's honeyeater. All are members of"
"to the wrists. The tail is short and is covered in long hairs, save for below the base. Honey badgers are the largest terrestrial mustelids in Africa. Adults measure in shoulder height and in body length, with the tail adding another . Females are smaller than males. In Africa, males weigh while females weigh on average. The mean weight of adult honey badgers from different areas has been reported at anywhere between , with a median of roughly , per various studies. This positions it as the third largest known badger, after the European badger and hog badger, and fourth"
"Helmeted honeyeater The helmeted honeyeater (""Lichenostomus melanops cassidix"") is a passerine bird in the honeyeater family. It is a distinctive and critically endangered subspecies of the yellow-tufted honeyeater, that exists in the wild only as a tiny relict population in the Australian state of Victoria, in the Yellingbo Nature Conservation Reserve. It is Victoria’s only endemic bird, and was adopted as one. The helmeted honeyeater is one of four subspecies of the yellow-tufted honeyeater. The taxonomic history of ""L. m. cassidix"" is complicated. Schodde and Mason affirm its subspecific status but suggest that there is intergradation across eastern Victoria and"
"southern Morocco and southwestern Algeria and outside Africa through Arabia, Iran and western Asia to Turkmenistan and the Indian Peninsula. It is known to range from sea level to as much as 2,600 m above sea level in the Moroccan High Atlas and 4,000 m in Ethiopia's Bale Mountains. In 2014 and 2015, it was recorded in Benin’s Pendjari National Park by camera-traps. Honey badgers often become serious poultry predators. Because of their strength and persistence, they are difficult to deter. They are known to rip thick planks from hen-houses or burrow underneath stone foundations. Surplus killing is common during"
"Pied honeyeater The pied honeyeater (""Certhionyx variegatus"") is a species of bird in the family of honeyeaters Meliphagidae and the sole species in the genus ""Certhionyx"" (Christidis & Boles 2008). This species is also known as the black and white honeyeater or western pied honeyeater. It is endemic to Australia and is listed as a vulnerable species under Schedule 2 of the Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 (NSW) In 1999, taxonomists had placed pied honeyeater (""Certhionyx variegatus""), banded honeyeater (""Cissomela pectoralis"") and black honeyeater (""Sugomel nigrum"") in the genus ""Certhionyx"", however revised DNA analysis indicates that these species are not"
"level. The International Ornithologists' Union accepted these proposals and introduced the name ""yellow-billed honeyeater"" for ""G. viridis"" and ""giant honeyeater"" for ""G. brunneirostris"". Giant honeyeater The giant honeyeater or duetting giant honeyeater (""Gymnomyza brunneirostris"") is a species of bird in the family Meliphagidae. It is endemic to Fiji. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. It is threatened by habitat loss. It is endemic Viti Levu island. It was formerly considered conspecific with the yellow-billed honeyeater. Both showed both phenotypic and behavioural differences. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014"
"MacGregor's honeyeater confirms that it belongs to the Meliphagidae family. It is similar and closely related to the smoky honeyeater. The name commemorates its discoverer, the administrator of British New Guinea Sir William MacGregor. Due to small and declining population, the MacGregor's honeyeater is evaluated as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. It is listed on Appendix II of CITES. MacGregor's honeyeater The MacGregor's honeyeater (""Macgregoria pulchra"") also known as Macgregor's giant honeyeater, Macgregor's bird of paradise, and ochre-winged honeyeater, is a large (up to 40 cm long) black crow-like bird with a large orange-yellow eye-wattles and"
"the heathland avian fauna is dominated by nectar-feeding birds such as honey-eaters and lorikeets although numerous other birds from emus to eagles are also common in Australian heathlands. Australian heathlands are also home to the world's only nectar-feeding terrestrial mammal: the honey possum. The bird fauna of the South African fynbos includes sunbirds, warblers and siskins. Heathlands are also an excellent habitat for insects including ants, moths, butterflies and wasps with many species being restricted entirely to it. One such example of an organism restricted to heathland is the silver-studded blue butterfly, ""Plebejus argus"". Anthropogenic heath habitats are a cultural"
"Honey blue-eye The honey blue-eye (""Pseudomugil mellis"") is an endangered species of fish in the family Pseudomugilidae. It is endemic to southeastern Queensland, Australia, where it is found in mildly acidic, often tannin-stained, ponds and streams in wallum habitat. Previously considered a colour variant of the related pacific blue-eye (""Pseudomugil signifer""), the honey blue-eye was described by Gerald R. Allen and Walter Ivantsoff in 1982. The species name is derived from the Latin word ""mel"" ""honey"". It is markedly smaller than its close relative. It was confirmed genetically as distinct in a molecular study of it and the Pacific blue-eye"
"Strong-billed honeyeater The strong-billed honeyeater (""Melithreptus validirostris"") is a species of bird in the family Meliphagidae. It is one of two species of the genus ""Melithreptus"" endemic to Tasmania. Its natural habitat is temperate forests. The strong-billed honeyeater was first described by ornithologist John Gould in 1837. Its specific name is derived from the Latin words ""validus"" ""strong"", and ""rostrum"" ""bill"". It is a member of the genus ""Melithreptus"" with several species, of similar size and (apart from the brown-headed honeyeater) black-headed appearance, in the honeyeater family Meliphagidae. Molecular markers show the strong-billed honeyeater separated from the common ancestor of"
"pest because of its intrusion into orchards and urban gardens where it damages fruit. Yellow-faced honeyeater The yellow-faced honeyeater (""Caligavis chrysops"") is a medium-small bird in the honeyeater family, Meliphagidae. It takes both its common name and scientific name from the distinctive yellow stripes on the sides of its head. Its loud clear call often begins twenty or thirty minutes before dawn. It is widespread across eastern and south eastern Australia, in open sclerophyll forests from coastal dunes to high-altitude subalpine areas, and woodlands along creeks and rivers. Comparatively short-billed for a honeyeater, it is thought to have adapted to"