Pic from Dirk Theron/ Magnus News Agency. Pic shows a honey badger slightly battered and bruised after challenging an oryx at a waterhole. There’s nothing sweet about this honey badger, the amazingly angry animal which challenges anything that comes close – even horned antelopes 20 TIMES bigger than it is. Wildlife photographer Dirk Theron, 45, captured some stunning photos of the spaniel-sized badger tussling with a huge oryx antelope. As these pictures show, incredibly the badger challenged the much-larger animal to a fight at a waterhole, even though an oryx comes equipped with impaling metre-long horns. Despite being hurled through the air like a rag doll the honey badger kept coming back for more, biting at the antelopes ankles, before eventually the bemused herbivore left the scene. Lions have been known to walk around honey badgers rather than getting close, such is their reputation for ferocity, which is matched only by their northern cousin, the wolverine. (see Magnus copy) pictures@magnusnewsagency.com +44(0)1214584402
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