My new respect for Kleinman

In catching up on my education of the wildlife – well it is earth day after all – , I stumbled upon an article on the internets about Honey Badgers. Undoubtedly the most fascinating creatures I’ve ever read of. I came across a paragraph in the article on what would later appear to me as a typical day of awesomeness in the life of a Honey Badger. It read:

“In a 2002 National Geographic documentary titled “Snake killers: Honey badgers of the Kalahari”, a badger named Kleinman was documented stealing a meal out of a puff adder’s mouth and casually eating the meal in front of the hissing snake.

“After the meal, Kleinman began to hunt the puff adder, the species being one of the badger’s preferred venomous snakes. He managed to kill the snake and began eating it, but then collapsed on the dead snake as he had been bitten during the struggle.

“After about two hours he surprisingly awoke. Once his paralysis had subsided, the badger continued with his meal and then resumed his journey.”

I’ve never, ever, come across a piece of literature so agonizingly terrifying yet so brilliantly hilarious all at once. Honey Badgers gave garnered a new respect from me that’s for sure.

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