The Honey Badger (Mellivora capensis) is also known as the Ratel in Southern Africa and belongs to the mammal family that includes badgers and weasels. Honey Badgers have a low slung, thickset body with powerful jaws and teeth and very strong claws used for digging. Their skin is very loose, and this allows the Badger to twist freely within it, enabling it to severely injure attackers, even when held in their jaws. They are famous for their strength, toughness and ferocity. Honey Badgers mostly live solitary lives, although pairs may hunt together in the breeding season. They are skilled diggers, but also use burrows dug by other animals. They have a varied diet that includes honey, berries, roots, vegetables, insects, scorpions and other invertebrates, eggs, reptiles, birds and small mammals. In populated areas Honey Badgers may be a nuisance, raiding garbage bins and stealing poultry. This young male Ratel was in the grounds of Satara Restcamp in Kruger National Park, South Africa, patrolling on the lookout for food. He found a rotten log, dug out then ate beetle larvae from the soft wood.