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  • Though Mathieu betrayed some honey-badger fatigue—"I do have a real name," he said—he said he recognizes that fans love it.

    Honey Badger Stalks the Heisman Rachel Bachman 2011

  • The honey-badger madness has gotten so heated, the school has had to step in, invoking NCAA rules that prevent anyone from profiting from an amateur athlete's likeness.

    Honey Badger Stalks the Heisman Rachel Bachman 2011

  • Particularly in the foothills and mountains, larger mammals such as Chacma baboon Papio ursinus, honey-badger Mellivora capensis, clawless otter Aonyx capensis, leopard Panthera pardus, aardvark Orycteropus afer, eland Taurotragus oryx, the regional endemic bontebok Damaliscus dorcas dorcas anddiverse mustelids and viverrids occur.

    Cape Floral Protected Areas, South Africa 2009

  • But there are no cages at Senga, and only the honey-badger lives in a tub with a chain round his neck, like a bull-dog.

    The Summons 1906

  • A honey-badger came timorously creeping, his feet shuffling the fallen leaves, peered at the strange figures of the men, and, at the move of an arm, fled scurrying through the stillness with the noise of some great creature.

    Caste William Alexander Fraser 1896

  • Even when a jackal, or it might have been a honey-badger, slipped across the road in front, a drifting shadow, the Turcoman only rattled the snaffle-bit in his teeth, cocked his ears, and then blew a breath of disdain from his big nostrils.

    Caste William Alexander Fraser 1896

  • We were kind of hoping to see a honey-badger, but it wasn't to be.

    Griffin And Hoxie Mega Feed 2010

  • Two are specifically involved in honey-badger symbiosis, the black-throated and scaly-throated honey-guides.

    Griffin And Hoxie Mega Feed 2009

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