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Tough loose skin and specialized neurotoxin resistance protect honey badgers. The figure is taken from San Diego Zoo, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.

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Honey badgers can sleep off venomous cobra bites

Tough loose skin and specialized neurotoxin resistance protect honey badgers.

Honey badgers feature rubbery skin up to six millimetres thick that resists bee stings and predator bites. They also possess mutated nicotinic acetylcholine receptors that neutralize snake venom, allowing them to wake up refreshed hours after receiving a lethal cobra bite.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Tough loose skin and specialized neurotoxin resistance protect honey badgers. The figure is taken from San Diego Zoo, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a animals fact?: Yes. It sits on the Animals shelf, one of 1,090 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.