Antelope sends honey badger flying in epic fight
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The photographer said the honey badger wouldn't give up the fight until the oryx decided 'enough is enough.' (Dirk Theron/Caters News)
Maybe honey badgers do give a you-know-what.
An epic fight between an antelope and a honey badger has gone viral after pictures emerged of the antelope sending the badger flying.
The honey badger, known for being an aggressive animal, got into a tussle with an antelope at Etosha National Park in Namibia. After the oryx decided it had had enough of the honey badger, it used its prodigious horns to send it flying into midair.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Pic Dirk Theron/Caters News - (Pictured: The oryx headbutts the honey badger launching it into the air.) - A honey badger has been flung through the air after attempting to attack an oryx. Dirk Theron, 45, from Cape Town, South Africa, was visiting Etosha National Park, when he spotted the fighting pair.The photos show the honey badger attacking an oryx and despite being flung six metres into the air he refuses to give up and keeps on coming back for more.SEE CATERS COPY (Dirk Theron/Caters News)
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In 2011, a YouTube video about a honey badger went viral, with the narrator talking about how it does not take any nonsense.
The photographer who captured the incredible pictures at Etosha National Park, Dick Theron, said that the honey badger wouldn't give up the fight until the oryx decided enough was enough.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Pic Dirk Theron/Caters News - (Pictured: The oryx and honey badger square off against each other.) - A honey badger has been flung through the air after attempting to attack an oryx. Dirk Theron, 45, from Cape Town, South Africa, was visiting Etosha National Park, when he spotted the fighting pair.The photos show the honey badger attacking an oryx and despite being flung six metres into the air he refuses to give up and keeps on coming back for more.SEE CATERS COPY (Dirk Theron/Caters News)
"It kept on charging at the oryx, then the oryx would hook the badger between its horns and toss him five or six meters into the air," Theron said, according to the Daily Mail.
"The first time I thought the honey badger must be dead or seriously injured, but it just got up, shook itself and then charge at the oryx again!" Theron added.
Originally a game reserve, Etosha National Park, located in northwestern Namibia, has been a national park since 1967.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Pic Dirk Theron/Caters News - (Pictured: The oryx and honey badger lunge at each other as the honey badger goes for the oryxs legs.) - A honey badger has been flung through the air after attempting to attack an oryx. Dirk Theron, 45, from Cape Town, South Africa, was visiting Etosha National Park, when he spotted the fighting pair.The photos show the honey badger attacking an oryx and despite being flung six metres into the air he refuses to give up and keeps on coming back for more.SEE CATERS COPY (Dirk Theron/Caters News)
Approximately 200,000 people visit the park every year to spot animals such as the African bush elephant, Angolan giraffe and Southwest African lion, in addition to the aforementioned honey badger and oryx.
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