Which carnivorous mammal, native to Africa, SW Asia and the Indian sub-continent can also be known as the Honey Badger?
"these events, with one incident resulting in the death of 17 Muscovy ducks and 36 chickens. Because of the toughness and looseness of their skin, honey badgers are very difficult to kill with dogs. Their skin is hard to penetrate, and its looseness allows them to twist and turn on their attackers when held. The only safe grip on a honey badger is on the back of the neck. The skin is also tough enough to resist several machete blows. The only sure way of killing them quickly is through a blow to the skull with a club or a"
"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"
"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 ,"
"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"
"Eomellivora Eomellivora is an extinct genus of prehistoric mustelid closely related to the honey badger known from the Eurasia and North America, and tentatively Africa. ""Eomellivora"" was long thought to contain only one species, ""E. wimani"", with Wolsan and Semenov (1996) treating ""E. piveteaui"" as a younger subspecies of ""E. wimani"". However, new remains of ""E. piveteaui"" described in 2015 allowed for recognition of ""E. piveteaui"" as distinct from ""E. wimani"", but also treatment of ""E. ursogulo"" (Orlov, 1948) and ""E. hungarica"" Kretzoi, 1942 from the eastern Paratethys region. The placement of the African species ""Eomellivora tugenensis"" in ""Eomellivora"" is"
"not the right. Although it feeds predominantly on soft foods, the honey badger's cheek teeth are often extensively worn. The canine teeth are exceptionally short for carnivores. The tongue has sharp, backward-pointing papillae which assist it in processing tough foods. The winter fur is long, (being long on the lower back), and consists of sparse, coarse, bristle-like hairs, with minimal underfur. Hairs are even sparser on the flanks, belly and groin. The summer fur is shorter (being only long on the back) and even sparser, with the belly being half bare. The sides of the head and lower body are"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"and increased popularity of badger meat in Japanese restaurants, it is feared the culling may have reached an unsustainable level. Japanese badger The Japanese badger (""Meles anakuma"") is a species of carnivoran of the family Mustelidae, the weasels and their kin. Endemic to Japan, it is found on Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku, and Shodoshima. It shares the genus ""Meles"" with the Asian and European badgers. In Japan it is called by the name ""nihonanaguma"" (ニホンアナグマ), lit. ""Japan hole-bear"". Japanese badgers are smaller (average length in males, in females) and less sexually dimorphic (except in the size of the canine teeth) than"
"Sun bear The sun bear (""Helarctos malayanus"") is a bear species occurring in tropical forest habitats of Southeast Asia. It is classified as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List as the large-scale deforestation that has occurred throughout Southeast Asia over the past three decades has dramatically reduced suitable habitat for the sun bear. The global population is thought to have declined by more than 30% over the past three bear generations. The Malayan sun bear is also known as the ""honey bear"", which refers to its voracious appetite for honeycombs and honey. However, ""honey bear"" can also refer to a"
"Japanese badger The Japanese badger (""Meles anakuma"") is a species of carnivoran of the family Mustelidae, the weasels and their kin. Endemic to Japan, it is found on Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku, and Shodoshima. It shares the genus ""Meles"" with the Asian and European badgers. In Japan it is called by the name ""nihonanaguma"" (ニホンアナグマ), lit. ""Japan hole-bear"". Japanese badgers are smaller (average length in males, in females) and less sexually dimorphic (except in the size of the canine teeth) than their European counterparts. Tail length is between . This species is rather smaller on average than the European badger but"
"tentative. The genus ""Hadrictis"" Pia, 1939, described from a skull found in late Miocene deposits in Austria, is a synonym of ""Eomellivora"". Eomellivora Eomellivora is an extinct genus of prehistoric mustelid closely related to the honey badger known from the Eurasia and North America, and tentatively Africa. ""Eomellivora"" was long thought to contain only one species, ""E. wimani"", with Wolsan and Semenov (1996) treating ""E. piveteaui"" as a younger subspecies of ""E. wimani"". However, new remains of ""E. piveteaui"" described in 2015 allowed for recognition of ""E. piveteaui"" as distinct from ""E. wimani"", but also treatment of ""E. ursogulo"" (Orlov,"
"Black honeyeater The black honeyeater (""Sugomel niger"") is a species of bird in the honeyeater family Meliphagidae, and the sole species in the genus Sugomel. The black honeyeater exhibits sexual dimorphism, with the male being black and white while the female is a speckled grey-brown; immature birds look like the female. The species is endemic to Australia, and ranges widely across the arid areas of the continent, through open woodland and shrubland, particularly in areas where the emu bush and related species occur. A nectar feeder, the black honeyeater has a long curved bill to reach the base of tubular"
"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"
"Sloth bear The sloth bear (""Melursus ursinus"") is an insectivorous bear species native to the Indian subcontinent. It is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, mainly because of habitat loss and degradation. It has also been called labiated bear because of its long lower lip and palate used for sucking insects. Compared to brown and black bears, the sloth bear is lankier, has a long, shaggy fur and a mane around the face, and long, sickle-shaped claws. It evolved from the ancestral brown bear during the Pleistocene and through convergent evolution shares features found in insect-eating mammals. Sloth"
"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"
"Hamadryas baboon The hamadryas baboon (; ""Papio hamadryas"") is a species of baboon from the Old World monkey family. It is the northernmost of all the baboons, being native to the Horn of Africa and the southwestern tip of the Arabian Peninsula. These regions provide habitats with the advantage for this species of fewer natural predators than central or southern Africa where other baboons reside. The hamadryas baboon was a sacred animal to the ancient Egyptians and appears in various roles in ancient Egyptian religion, hence its alternative name of 'sacred baboon'. Apart from the striking sexual dimorphism (males are"
"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"
"Bharal The bharal (""Pseudois nayaur""), also called the Himalayan blue Dog or naur, is a caprid found in the high Himalayas of India, Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet, Myanmar and Pakistan and some parts of rural Indore. Its native names include ""bharal"", ""barhal"", ""bharar"" and ""bharut"" in Hindi, ""na"" or ""sna"" in Ladakh, ""nabo"" in Spitian, ""naur"" in Nepali and ""na"" or ""gnao"" in Bhutan. The bharal was also the focus of George Schaller's and Peter Matthiessen's expedition to Nepal in 1973. Their personal experiences are well documented by Matthiessen in his book, ""The Snow Leopard"". The bharal is a major food"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"Rock hyrax The rock hyrax (""Procavia capensis""), also called rock badger, rock rabbit, and Cape hyrax, is a medium-sized terrestrial mammal native to Africa and the Middle East. Commonly referred to in South African English as the dassie (), it is one of the four living species of the order Hyracoidea, and the only one in the genus ""Procavia"". Like all hyraxes, it is between 4 kilograms (9 lb) and 5 kilograms (11 lb) in mass, with short ears and tail. The rock hyrax is found at elevations up to in habitats with rock crevices allowing it to escape from"
"Asian badger The Asian badger (""Meles leucurus""), also known as the sand badger is a species of badger native to Mongolia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Korean Peninsula and Russia. Asian badgers are mostly lighter in colour than European badgers, though some forms may closely approach the former species in colour, if not darker, with smudges of ocherous and brownish highlights. The flanks are lighter than the middle of the back, and the facial stripes are usually brown rather than black. Unlike the facial stripes of European badgers, those of Asian badgers narrow behind their eyes and extend above the ears."
"with brown or blackish ""badges"" marking the cheeks and a white stripe extending from the nose to the base of the head. In the subspecies ""T. t. berlandieri"", the white head stripe extends the full length of the body, to the base of the tail. The American badger is a fossorial carnivore. It preys predominantly on pocket gophers (Geomyidae), ground squirrels (""Spermophilus""), moles (Talpidae), marmots (""Marmota""), prairie dogs (""Cynomys""), pika (""Ochotona""), woodrats (""Neotoma""), kangaroo rats (""Dipodomys""), deer mice (""Peromyscus""), and voles (""Microtus""), often digging to pursue prey into their dens, and sometimes plugging tunnel entrances with objects. The American badger"
"Jadera haematoloma Jadera haematoloma, the red-shouldered bug, goldenrain-tree bug or soapberry bug is a species of true bug that lives throughout the United States and south to northern South America. It feeds on seeds within the soapberry plant family, Sapindaceae, and is known to rapidly adapt to feeding on particular hosts. People often confuse this species with the boxelder bug. ""J. haematoloma"" are typically long and wide, though the short-winged form (brachyptera) usually is long. Color is mostly blackish (sometimes dark gray or purplish) except for red eyes, ""shoulders"" (lateral margins of pronotum), and costal margins and dorsal part of"
"Aardwolf The aardwolf (""Proteles cristata"") is a small, insectivorous mammal, native to East and Southern Africa. Its name means ""earth-wolf"" in Afrikaans and Dutch. It is also called ""maanhaar-jackal"" (Afrikaans for ""mane-jackal"") or ""civet hyena"", based on its habit of secreting substances from its anal gland, a characteristic shared with the African civet. The aardwolf is in the same family as the hyena. Unlike many of its relatives in the order Carnivora, the aardwolf does not hunt large animals. It eats insects and their larvae, mainly termites; one aardwolf can lap up as many as 250,000 termites during a single"
"Kinkajou The kinkajou ( ) (""Potos flavus"") is a rainforest mammal of the family Procyonidae related to olingos, coatis, raccoons, and the ringtail and cacomistle. It is the only member of the genus Potos and is also known as the ""honey bear"" (a name that it shares with the sun bear). Kinkajous may be mistaken for ferrets or monkeys, but are not closely related to either. Native to Central America and South America, this mostly frugivorous, arboreal mammal is not an endangered species, though it is seldom seen by people because of its strict nocturnal habits. However, they are hunted"
"Onager The onager (; ""Equus hemionus""), also known as hemione or Asiatic wild ass, is a species of the family Equidae (horse family) native to Asia. A member of the subgenus ""Asinus"", the onager was described and given its binomial name by German zoologist Peter Simon Pallas in 1775. Five subspecies have been recognized, one of which is extinct. The Asiatic wild ass is larger than the African wild ass at about and (head-body length). They are reddish-brown or yellowish-brown in color and have broad dorsal stripe on the middle of the back. Unlike most horses and donkeys, onagers have"
"Himalayan brown bear The Himalayan brown bear (""Ursus arctos isabellinus""), also known as the Himalayan red bear, isabelline bear or Dzu-Teh, is a subspecies of the brown bear and is known from northern Afghanistan, northern Pakistan, northern India, west China and Nepal. It is the largest mammal in the region, males reaching up to long while females are a little smaller. These bears are omnivorous and hibernate in a den during the winter. Although present in a number of protected areas, they are becoming increasingly rare because of loss of suitable habitat and hunting by humans, and have become ""critically"
"""Malacomys"", ""Mastomys"", ""Mus"", ""Mylomys"", ""Myomyscus"", ""Oenomys"", ""Otomys"", ""Parotomys"", ""Pelomys"", ""Praomys"", ""Rhabdomys"", ""Stenocephalemys"" and many others. African rabbits and hares include riverine rabbit, Bunyoro rabbit, Cape hare, scrub hare, Ethiopian highland hare, African savanna hare, Abyssinian hare and several species of ""Pronolagus"". Among the marine mammals there are several species of dolphins, 2 species of sirenians and seals (e.g. Cape fur seals). Of the carnivorans there are 60 species, including the conspicuous hyenas, lions, leopards, cheetahs, serval, as well as the less prominent bat-eared fox, striped polecat, African striped weasel, caracal, honey badger, speckle-throated otter, several mongooses, jackals and civets. The"