Honey Badger Is Master Escape Artist, How He Manages To Outsmart People Is Astonishing

Animals are so incredibly clever! I know that animals can be very intelligent, but what one honey badger was caught on camera doing completely shocked me, and the people who filmed him!

Stoffel the honey badger will stop at nothing to escape his enclosure at Moholoholo Rehab Center in South Africa. Brian Jones, a wildlife conservationist at the Center, relates how he regularly battles wits with Stoffel.  What Stoffel thinks up for his escapes absolutely stunned me!

What an incredibly smart animal!

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Brian rescued Stoffel from a trap some 20 years ago. For a small animal, honey badgers have amazingly large brains and are absolutely fearless. Stoffel certainly proves that. Stoffel still gets up to mischief now and then.

Moholoholo Rehab Center shared in 2023 that Stoffel turned 26 years old and “living a very relaxed life with his mate Hammie, spending most days napping before his mealtimes and enrichment deliveries. He has left the escaping to the younger badgers at the centre these days preferring to use his time playing with Hammie or resting in the sunshine.”

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