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 Steve Jackson's Brockwatch- web site provides information on all species of badgers and is well worth a visit

Other websites of interest

Cape Nature Conservation- beekeeper prosecution

Cape Nature Conservation web site

Wildlife & Environment Society of South Africa - Schools program

Endangered Wildlife Trust-Carnivore Conservation Group

Johannesburg Zoo

Ratel Infantry  Combat vehicle

CITES 

Relevant books

• Estes, R.H. 1991. The behaviour guide to African mammals. University of California Press, Berkeley, 611.

• Kingdon, J., 1989. East African Mammals, Vol.3A, Carnivores. University of Chicago Press : 87-104 

• Neal, E., 1990. The Natural History of Badgers. Christopher Helm, London

• Neal, E. & Cheeseman, C. 1996. Badgers. Poyser Natural History,  London

• Skinner, J. D. & Smithers R.H.N. 1990. The Mammals of the southern African   subregion. University of Pretoria, Pretoria. 453-456

Popular articles and scientific papers

• Begg, C.M., Begg, K.S., Du Toit, J.T. & Mills, M.G.L. 2003. Sexual and seasonal variation in the diet and foraging behaviour of a sexually dimorphic carnivore, the honey badger Mellivora capensis. J. Zool (Lond) 360: 301-316.

• Begg, C.M., Begg, K.S., Du Toit, J.T. & Mills, M.G.L. 2003. Scent-marking behaviour of the honey badger, Mellivora capensis (Mustelidae) in the southern Kalahari. Animal behaviour 66:917-929.

• Begg, K.S. & Begg, C.M. 2002.  The conflict between beekeepers and honey badgers in South Africa: a Western Cape perspective. The Open Country 4: 25-37.

• Borello,W. & Borello, R. 1986. Chanting Goshawks foraging with honey badger. Babbler 12: 25

• Comrie-Grieg, J. 1985. Death trap for two honey badgers. African  Wildlife Vol.39 No.3:119

• Cooper R.L. 1976. Strange hunting companions. Custos June/July.42-44.

• Dean W.R.J. & Macdonald I.A.W. 1981. A review of African birds feeding in association with mammals. Ostrich 52: 135-155

• Dean W.R.J. 1985. Greater Honeyguides and Ratels: how long will the myth continue? Proc. Symp. Birds & Man, Johannesburg 1983:217-223

• Dean W.R.J, Siegfried W.R. & Macdonald I.A.W. 1990. The fallacy, fact, and fate of Guiding behaviour in the Greater honeyguide. Conservation Biology. Vol.4 No.1

• Guy, R.D. 1971 Goshawks, Ratels and wild honey. African Wildlife 25: 53

• Ivy, R. H. 1970. A plucky honey badger. African Wild Life, 24:341-343

• Kruuk, H. & Mills, M.G.L. 1983. Notes on the food and foraging of the Honey badger (Mellivora capensis) in the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park. Koedoe 26:153-157

• Lombard A.P.F. 1989. Associations between raptors and small carnivores.Gabar.4 (1)

• Macdonald I. 1994. The Honeyguide and the honey badger: a persistent African fairy tale. Africa- Environment & Wildlife Vol.2 No.4

• Nelson, R. & Nelson, J 1987. Observations of a honey badger and Chanting Goshawks at Nxai Pan. Babbler 14: 18-19.

• Paxton M. 1988. Foraging associations between Pale chanting goshawks , honey badgers and Slender mongooses. Gabar 3:82-84

• Steyn P. 1982. Birds of prey of southern Africa. David Philip, Cape Town.Stevenson-Hamilton, J. 1947. Wildlife in South Africa. Cassel and Company, London, United Kingdom.

• Style, G.,1977. The Honey badger or Ratel (Mellivora capensis). Wild Rhodesia (15):24-25

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