🦡Honey badger
蜜獾（學名：Mellivora capensis），诨号“平头哥”，鼬科動物，蜜獾屬下唯一一種，分佈於非洲、西亞及南亞。牠們以「世界上最無所畏懼的動物」被收錄在金氏世界紀錄大全中數年。也因為牠們膽子大、無所畏懼的名聲，致使世界上願意收容蜜獾的動物園很少。 其种加词“capensis”意为“南非开普省的/好望角的”。
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.
- Body mass
- 10 kg
- Body length
- 0.73 m
- Shoulder height
- 0.26 m
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 31 years
Everything we know about the Honey badger
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass10 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 10 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length0.73 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Shoulder height0.26 m0.23–0.28 m · typical rangeDetails ↓Hide ↑
Value is the midpoint of the published range. The site's flagship small-and-angry animal.
Source: Rosevear 1974, The Carnivores of West Africa, p.113 · see citation
Brain mass78 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan31 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 31 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length9.78 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation180 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 180 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter sizeabout 2COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 2AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic levelOmnivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleDiurnalCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l10 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Honey badger yet: top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderCarnivora
- ›familyMustelidae
- ›genusMellivora
- ›speciesMellivora capensis
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
- subfamilyMellivoriane
- genusMellivora
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderLaurasiatheria
- orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
- suborderCaniformia
- familyMustelidae
- subfamilyMellivoriane
- genusMellivora
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