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Honey badger

Mellivora capensis

Order: Carnivora

Family: Mustelidae

Datasheet

Sex: unknown

Age: adult

Skull length: 14.1 cm

Skull width: 8.3 cm

Skull height: 6.6 cm

Skull weight: 179 g

Owner: Hungarian Natural History Museum

Inventory number: 3838.

Collecting date: 14 June 1929

Collecting area: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Uploaded: 10 April 2018

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