honey badger

A bloodied but determined honey badger pursues a Cape porcupine in Botswana.

Nickerson thinks that description needs an addendum: “A peacock with a honey badger attitude.”

The honey badger of infectious diseases, it will find a way to find you and gobble you up, if you’re not careful.

Later, when she listened to the hoot of an eagle owl, the hiss of a genet, and the hrrr-hrrr grunt of a foraging honey badger, she didn’t feel quite as confident.

He’s an equal-opportunity moron with the disposition of a honey badger.