Whether You Call It a Wolverine, a Glutton, a Carcajou, a Skunk Bear, or even the Demon of the North, this Beast is Fierce in Any Language
G. gulo can make you sick—catch
a whiff of that anal stink
and you may claw your own face
off. Fast enough to chase
a lynx, so tenacious it won’t blink
from a bear. It has thick,
oily fur to keep warm and wick
away water. Stocky. About
a foot tall at the shoulder, snout
to tail, three: the Quickhatch.
Life Curled Under a Heat Lamp
Stirring from sleep, his penultimate
action was to eat living mice. Creepy.
He may decide to then molt. A pet
snake is mostly boring. And sleepy.
Cooperative Hunting
Some Roving Coralgroupers nod
at a school of Giant Moray
Eels, inviting the double-jawed
serpents to a feeding foray
in the reef—to flush out every nich,
to kill their prey with a twitch.
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Not at ALL!
I believe that is, speaking specifically, a honey badger.
Which prompts the question: who would win the fight between a honey badger and a quick hatch?
I think I saw a National Geographic special from which this clip could have been taken. The honey badger is bitten by the snake, but then just takes a long nap to sleep it off. The honey badger may even taking small doses of snake venom in order to build up his resistance.
No, wait … that was actually the Pharaoh’s son in Exodus: Gods and Kings.
First a little, thence to more…