When she senses something below, she uses her exceptionally long claws to rake through the sand.

But the rat escapes.

And it's one for the jackals.

The... Little man has found a puff adder that has just caught a gerbil, and the badger does an extraordinary thing.

He swipes the gerbil from the puff at his mouth, then casually

settles down near the deadly snake to eat its prey. And when he's done, he moves in on the

puff adder itself. Puff adders have large fangs that can deliver a massive dose of lethal venom in a rapid strike.

The badger's real advantage is not so much its teeth and claws, but its ferocity.

Its sheer tenacity.

I think he's got it.

The badger has dispatched one of Africa's most dangerous snakes.

As always, he starts at the head, destroying the lethal fangs.

But this time, it may be too late.

Look at his right cheek.

The right cheek, it's swelling up.

Kerman's been bitten by the puff adder, right cheek swelling and he stopped eating the snake.

This is a tense moment for Keith and Colleen.

It's taken many months to get this close to little man.

He's quite a character and he's taught them a lot about badgers.

Now it looks like he's showing them how readily a badger can die.

His breathing is very shallow and the swelling tennis ball size on his right cheek is just lying

in the open.

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