Honey Badger Houdini

[1monster]

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[Warpy]

1. I wonder how long it'll take him to get the point

and that is the trick is to building an environment a honey badger would want to remain in, instead of making one small and sterile. I'd be looking for ways to escape, too. A honey badger Utopia is one they'd always return to should they escape.

It's just one more reason to love the honey badger, if we didn't already have adequate ones.

[AtheistCrusader]

3. Can't make it big enough.

Zoos are great for OUR convenience, but all signs point to: they suck for animals.

[Warpy]

6. The local ones seem OK for the big cats

with lots of foliage to keep them from running into each other while they go about their daily business of marking all the signposts within it. Humans are kept up high on bridges and wait for glimpses of them through the leaves.

The polar bear enclosure is especially good, humans kept on the other side of one way glass in their pool. Who would think anything that enormous would have such a great time playing in the water?

The primate enclosures are also OK, lots of trees and ropes and nets for them to play on--and they do.

The giraffes and rhinos and elephants are what need to be shipped to a decent safari park. There is no way to build an adequate enclosure for them without enormous amounts of space.

I think some zoos are building good habitats for some animals. It's just impossible for them to be all things to all critters and should probably specialize in the species they're good at.

Zoos back in the 50s with animals stuck in cages weren't all that interesting. The ones that have created appropriate habitat are fascinating since the critters aren't just standing bored and hopeless in cages but out and about and doing largely what they'd have done in their original habitats.

Unfortunately, zoos and safari parks with good breeding programs might be the best chance we have of keeping some of the larger animals from going extinct.

[TygrBright]

2. Clearly, Honey Badger care about SOMETHING! n/t

[Spitfire of ATJ]

4. .......heh........

.......classic!

[Joe Shlabotnik]

5. Those lions are going to regret

mauling Stoffel, after he breaks into the zookeeper's gun cabinet.

[Gore1FL]

7. I'd surround the enclosure with a mote of daschunds n/t

[2naSalit]

8. Smarter than the average...

human.

Needs a more hospitable enclosure. But then, why isn't he allowed to be free?

[McCamy Taylor]

9. He does not just use tools He makes tools. It took humans a long time to do that.

K&R for one smart Honey Badger.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

10. HAAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! OMG!! That is too cute!!

what a STINKER! He's having a blast, driving the hoominz crazy.

[Nitram]

11. He imagines that the male honey badger thinks just like he does:

"Woman get up there."

[markpkessinger]

12. Speaking of animal intelligence . . .

The episode of Nova titled "Inside Animal Minds: Bird Genius," absolutely blew me away! Here's a link:

http://video.pbs.org/video/2365218674/