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Sending honey badger in snake island

Sending honey badger in snake island

By Julio JavierPublished 3 years ago 3 min read

Have you ever wondered what would happen if a honey badger was put on an island with poisonous snakes? Well, honey badgers are known for being the number one enemy of poisonous snakes. They can easily choose snakes like they're chewing candy! Honey badgers are also resistant to poison and aren't afraid of anything or anyone. They can even take on a big family of snakes! Sometimes, we see honey badgers fighting with just one snake. So, what would happen if a honey badger was sent to an island with poisonous snakes? We'll have to watch the video to find out! But first, let's learn a little bit about honey badgers. They're the toughest animals on earth and don't have nerves of fear. They eat porcupines and snakes, break hives for honey, steal from low birds, and snatch live prey. They're so stubborn that even lions and hyenas are tired of them! Honey badgers emit an unpleasant odor to defend themselves and have a unique fur color that makes them stand out.

If there's a place in the world where there are so many poisonous snakes that it's too dangerous to go, there? Well, there is! It's called Snake Island and it's in Brazil. This island is home to the world's most poisonous snake, the golden lance head snake. There are so many of these snakes on the island that there can be up to five of them per square meter! These snakes are really big and their venom is five times stronger than other snakes on land. They eat birds instead of mammals, which makes their venom even more dangerous. If you get bitten by one of these snakes, you could have swelling, headaches, vomiting, freezing, bleeding in your urine, intestinal bleeding, kidney failure, brain hemorrhage, or severe necrosis of muscle tissue. Yikes! There are also about 400,000 other poisonous snakes on the island, so it's definitely not a place to visit without safety equipment and a medical team. But, if you're a honey badger, you don't need anything and can go to the island with just your bare hands!

If you want to eat some yummy snakes, you need to have a big appetite! But watch out for honey badgers, they love to eat snakes too. If there were 10 honey badgers on the island, they would have a big party eating and talking all day long. But even with 100 honey badgers, there would still be plenty of snakes left. It would take about 1,000 honey badgers to wipe out all the snakes on the island. Honey badgers are really good at hunting snakes and they can even resist snake venom, but that doesn't mean they can't get hurt. One time, a honey badger got bitten by a puff adder and it was really sick. So be careful around snakes, even if you're a tough honey badger!

The poison works really fast. First, the bite hurts a lot and then the badger's body can't move because of the poison. The badger falls asleep for two hours, but the poison isn't strong enough to keep him asleep. When he wakes up, he eats his prey and takes a nap. He's going to an island with lots of snakes, and we don't know if he can beat them all. He's really strong, but there are a lot of snakes. Some people think that if there were hundreds of badgers, they might be able to win.

I believe a single honey badger didn’t easily devour all snake in snake island once honey badger put on it, but maybe and who knows.

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