ratel

I have already alluded to the Cape ratel doing this on the look-out for bees.

The Zibu or mbuidé flies at the tendon Achilles; it is most likely the Ratel.

But the deep boom of new-comers swept the earlier songsters out of the field: “Ik rammel, ik ratel en ik scheur”.

So it seems quite certain that a ratel never gets stung, no matter how many nests he may rob.

But if the ratel is odd in appearance, it is odder still in habits.