What a name! So, the stink badger isn’t actually a badger, which is too bad, because if Honey Badgers don’t care, I can only imagine that a stink badger is the epitome of nihilism. Stink badgers are actually a member of the skunk family and live on the islands of Palawan and Busuanga.

The Palawan Stink Badger occurs in a wider range of habitats including grasslands, ricefields and other cultivated land, particularly where shrub cover is also available, quite unlike the world’s only other stink badger, the Indonesian Stink Badger, which prefers forested hills and mountains. They both enjoy eating invertebrates such as worms and insects.

If you hadn’t guess by now, stink badgers…stink.  When threatened, they secrete noxious icky business from their anal glands, causing enemies to whimper and run for the nearest supply of tomato juice.

Despite the smell, they’re really quite cute:

Photo from http://www.arkive.org

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