It's not because of some natural immunity to venom. The honey badger, also known as the ratel, can die from poison stings and bites, but usually survives thanks to its thick, tough skin.
Built tough
And speaking of bites, the honey badger can survive the bites of some very dangerous creatures. They eat scorpions and snakes, and they have an unusually strong immunity to venom. That means that even if the scorpion stings or the snake bites it, the honey badger doesn't die as other animals might.
The hedgehog (Erinaceidae), the mongoose (Herpestidae), the honey badger (Mellivora capensis) and the opossum are known to be immune to a dose of snake venom.
Honey badgers have more profound defenses. Their skin is thick but loose, allowing them to absorb damage from damaging blows, bites, and stings. Furthermore, they are highly resistant to most elapid snake venom, including the black mamba.
Honey badgers are hard to kill with traditional weapons.
Their skin offers them great protection against most attacks, including dogs, arrows, spears, and even machetes. Honey badgers aren't bulletproof, however, and can successfully be killed with a bludgeon to the skull or a gunshot to the head.
The honey badger is known for its strength, ferocity and toughness. It is known to savagely and fearlessly attack almost any other species when escape is impossible, reportedly even repelling much larger predators such as lion and hyena.
The wolverine's greater strength and powerful jaws and teeth would very likely enable it to overpower the honey badger. However, like the much more powerful leopards and lions it would very likely have a very hard time getting through the honey badger's hide.
Honey Badger vs Komodo Dragon: Speed and Movement
They can run at 19 mph, but Komodo dragons can run at 11 mph. Honey badgers use their speed to dodge, harry, and launch deadly counterattacks against their foes. Overall, honey badgers have the speed advantage by a fair margin.
They are both aggressive. However, the honey badger is built for battle and has a resistance to snake venom. Unlike pythons, king cobras don't constrict that much and are probably unable to subdue honey badgers.
In the wild they will kill and eat up to 60 different species of animal with their strong claws, from venomous cobras to bee larvae, and in order to have a diet with this impressive range, honey badgers not only need to have problem-solving skills, they have to be some of the most adaptable creatures in the animal ...
The researchers found adaptations in Komodo dragon genes involved in coagulation that make these lizards immune from the venom anti-coagulant, protecting them from bleeding to death when attacked by another of their own species.
Honey badgers have an incredibly varied diet, which also includes highly venomous snakes. They will eat anything from puff adders to cobras and even black mambas.
Their resistance is to the a-neurotoxin in snake venom, specifically. Domestic pigs have a genetic mutation in their cell receptors that prevents binding of the a-neurotoxin, rendering the venom useless. The resistance doesn't occur in most pigs until they are adults, so small pigs are still vulnerable.
Honey badgers are primarily carnivorous and will eat anything from birds and lizards to deadly snakes. A honey badger has been documented being bitten by a highly venomous puff adder whilst killing it.
It's not because of some natural immunity to venom. The honey badger, also known as the ratel, can die from poison stings and bites, but usually survives thanks to its thick, tough skin. If you listen to the original National Geographic honey badger narration (but why would you, really?)
Mongooses are noted for their audacious attacks on highly venomous snakes, such as king cobras. The mongoose is a snake-killer by nature. These small mammals have some immunity to cobra venom, so they are one of the most successful animals that hunt cobra. They need more than good defense to kill a cobra, though.
Wolverines can tear after their prey at 30 mph, fast enough that it will catch both the honey badger and most other land-dwelling animals. The wolverine has the advantage in terms of speed.
Both animals are very formidable. The devil has a stronger bite, while the badger is larger and has much better claws. Both of them routinely survive attacks from much larger predators. Raw attitude would probably be the honey badger as it is absolutely fearless.
Adults are top predators but juvenile dragons are preyed upon by adult dragons, feral dogs, wild boars, civet cats and snakes. Komodo dragons are solitary animal except during breeding although groups of dragons may gather to feed at a kill.
A crocodile would win a fight against a Komodo dragon. Crocodiles are simply too large and too powerful for a Komodo dragon to fight back against. One likely outcome would be the crocodile waiting for the Komodo dragon in water and dragging it beneath the waves to suffer a brutal death.
The king cobra is the largest snake in the world and the Komodo dragon is the largest lizard. Both reptiles have very different styles of attacking prey. A Komodo dragon would overpower a king cobra in a fight.
Don't try to outrun a badger. They can keep up 19 mph for longer than you can.
Honey badgers, particularly young ones, can be predated by larger predators such as lions, leopards and hyenas.
Honey badgers have few natural predators, but they are occasionally hunted by leopards, lions and hyenas, Slate Magazine reported.