Honey Badger to Tree Badger

Today honey badgers roam the rainforests of the Congo. They are omnivores that prefer honey and bee larvae and live in the ground. Their main predators are the leopard and the python. Currently honey bees are dying off, possibly due to climate change, and could be extinct in the wild in about two hundred years. The honey badger will need to find a new main food source. It could transition to being called the “tree badger” because it could adapt to live and forage for food in trees so it can eat the insects within the trees by ripping off the bark and eating them with its tongue. The tree badgers could develop longer claws for climbing, hunting insects and fighting off leopards and pythons in trees. Also, their eye size could shrink to become compatible with seeing more light.