{"id":506,"date":"2014-07-23T10:47:31","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T08:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevs.house\/kalaharilionresearch\/?p=506"},"modified":"2014-07-23T10:47:31","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T08:47:31","slug":"honey-badger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevs.house\/kalaharilionresearch\/2014\/07\/23\/honey-badger\/","title":{"rendered":"Honey Badger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The honey badger (Mellivora capensis), also known as the ratel (\/\u02c8re\u026at\u0259l\/ or \/\u02c8r\u0251\u02d0t\u0259l\/),[3] is a species of mustelid native to Africa, Southwest Asia, and the Indian Subcontinent. Despite its name, the honey badger does not closely resemble other badger species; instead, it bears more anatomical similarities to weasels. It is classed as Least Concern by the IUCN owing to its extensive range and general environmental adaptations. It is primarily a carnivorous species and has few natural predators because of its thick skin and ferocious defensive abilities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/a\/af\/Honey_badger.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"282\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Honey Badger<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Honey_Badger\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The honey badger (Mellivora capensis), also known as the ratel (\/\u02c8re\u026at\u0259l\/ or \/\u02c8r\u0251\u02d0t\u0259l\/),[3] is a species of mustelid native to Africa, Southwest Asia, and the Indian Subcontinent. Despite its name, the honey badger does not closely resemble other badger species; instead, it bears more anatomical similarities to weasels. It is classed as Least Concern by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,30,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation","category-lion-ecosystems","category-other-animals","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevs.house\/kalaharilionresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevs.house\/kalaharilionresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevs.house\/kalaharilionresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevs.house\/kalaharilionresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevs.house\/kalaharilionresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevs.house\/kalaharilionresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509,"href":"https:\/\/kevs.house\/kalaharilionresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions\/509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevs.house\/kalaharilionresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevs.house\/kalaharilionresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevs.house\/kalaharilionresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}