Bonus Picture/Story - The Long Tailed Honey Badger

The Long Tailed Honey Badger - Aquarelle and Pencil

The Long Tailed Honey Badger in his natural habitat

The Long Tailed Honey Badger is a fierce animal, just like his bad ass cousin the Honey Badger who just 'don't give a shit'. The Long Tailed Honey Badger though is most commonly found in artists studios where they live in their natural habitat, the scrap paper. Here, amongst blotches of paint from testing out colours or cleaning the paint brushes, the Long Tailed Honey Badger finds plenty of food to satisfy his fierce hunger. His main prey are paint blotches who's indigestible pigment accumulate in the Long Tailed Honey Badger's fur and thus significantly contribute to its beautiful and varied fur colouring. This individual seems to favour blue and green paint blotches which have caused it's fur to tun a warm teal.

The Long Tailed Honey Badger on the prowl.

Every now and then though curiosity gets the better of the Long Tailed Honey Badger and he will start to prowl the studio in search of papers to rustle through and explore. While the native flora and fauna of an artists table can vary greatly, this individual seems to live in an exceptional bare environment with little prey around. Do to his 'don't give a shit' attitude and his endurance this individual manages to hurry through the baren landscape and find a small sketchbook.

What is this? The Long Tailed Honey Badger has found a

den of some sort.

Long Tailed Honey Badgers are known for their curiosity and this individual too, immediately starts exploring the sketchbook by fearlessly diving in between its pages. While it cannot see well in the dark it can use it's other well developed senses to orient itself in dark areas, find prey and identify any dangers before it is too late. It rustles around in between the pages. Eventually though we see it returning to the surface again. 

The Long Tailed Honey Badger has discovered something

in the depth of the sketchbook and drags into the

fluorescent light of the evening living room.

It appears that the Long Tailed Honey Badger has torn loose a whole page from the sketchbook, much larger then itself and is now dragging it out into the fluorescent light of the evening living room. This behaviour is often observed in male Long Tailed Honey Badgers as they gather materials to build a den, with the purpose of attracting and impressing a female for mating.

The Long Tailed Honey Badger moves into his newly
furnished den. 

Once the Long Tailed Honey Badger has finished his hard work of dragging the recently discovered page to a suitable position it begins to inspect its new den for the first time.

The Long Tailed Honey Badger has moved into his new
den and is settling to sleep for the night. 

It appears that the Long Tailed Honey Badger is satisfied with his den and so settles down for a night to recover from the days labours before continuing his work to attract a female.

A closeup of the Long Tailed Honey Badger waiting for a
suitable female to be impressed by his labour.

Well refreshed and with high spirits the Long Tailed Honey Badger has spend all day to add more gathered materials to his den. It is now well equipped with Names and Signatures he has scavenged from other pictures and paintings on the artists table. Now all that is left for him to do is to wait in his cozy home and hope that a female will find his den impressive enough to mate with him and to later give birth to their offspring in the safety of this little den/painting.