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The honey badger-also known as ratal- is part of the Mustelidae family. Honey badgers are not anything to do with badgers, they are only called honey badgers because in frenchâ¦, badger means the word dig, honey badgers are very extreme when it comes to claws and teeth. Claws are used for digging and also breaking into a bee hives, that's where the name HONEY comes from.
The western honey bee or European honey bee (Apis mellifera) is the most common of the ~40 species of honey bee worldwide. The genus name Apis is Latin for bee, and mellifera means honey-bearing, referring to the species' tendency to produce a large quantity of honey for storage over the winter.