another name for honey badger
The honey badger's scientific name is Mellivora capensis. The first part is the genus name, and the second is the species name. It is the only member of its genus.
The honey badger-also known as ratal- is part of the Mustelidae family. Honey badgers are not anything to do with badgers, they are only called honey badgers because in frenchâ¦, badger means the word dig, honey badgers are very extreme when it comes to claws and teeth. Claws are used for digging and also breaking into a bee hives, that's where the name HONEY comes from.