Lonzo Ball or worse a white man in a badgers body. The next thing you know he’s colonizing the area and passing out blankets contaminated with small pox.
My boy was being awful one day so we put him in his room. He climbed out the window and ran in through the kitchen door to brag that he had gotten out. He could have just gone to play with friends or anything. Hubris 🤷♀️
If Stoffle can't get in your house, no one can get in your house and it would be the safest place in the world. However, Stoffle IS going to get in your house.
I've been there and met Stoffel. His keeper was telling us that he spends a lot of time with Stoffel and was once lying down in the pen starting to doze off. He was brought back to reality when he realised that Stoffel was trying to push him towards the wall to be used as a step. True story.
@@TheRABIDdude Obviously there is no way that I can convince you and I did not see the incident myself. All I can say is that I was there, I live in South Africa, and that is what the keeper told us when he was giving us a talk about Stoffel and his antics. One thing that I did see was that the keeper and Stoffel were very close and had a great relationship. Stoffel is quite a character.
@@cousinjack2841 It's a lovely story, and heartwarming to know the keeper has a close friendship with the animal. I suppose there's no good way to verify someone's claims on youtube without them surrendering personal information (which would be stupid), but the story and your first-hand-account phrasing seem credible enough. And I have nothing to lose by taking it as true :) Thanks for sharing!
I've watched this so many times over the years, never take this down, please.:-) Just found a post on X from 3 months ago saying Stoffel is 26 years old and still doing well. My heart ❤
He doesn't even really want to leave, as shown by the fact that when he did, he went into his keeper's room. He really is just amusing himself with this game.
@Fuert Neigt You're an idiot. Stoffle can't go into the wild. He was rescued after he was malled by lions and requires medication for his damaged kidneys once a week. They're saving his life and he's happy. Watch the entire documentary before you say he abuses the animals.
Undecided Earth why call someone an idiot? This is arrogant and not nice. It does seem like abuse, if they are forcing the badger to stay when it doesn't want to. That would make Fuert Neigt right. But if the badger can't live in the wilderness, forcing the badger might be justified. That makes you right, but it doesn't make Fuert wrong, because they are still keeping the badger against his will. If in the documentary the badger doesn't leave after he escapes and does it just for fun, then you'd be right. But why be so angry and arrogant? Especially about someone defending the right cause? Because I too think that abuse is bad, don't you? My point is: everything has many aspects to it and no one is an idiot, when it's about exchanging information and not about defending your ego.
I bet she bailed after the first escape, got run over by a park worker, then died. All because she didn't care and only wanted to die. Why does no one ask what happened to the girl honey badger?
This absolute chad, he not only breaks out the enclosure but INTO the keepers house. That's like breaking out of prison to only break back into the wardens office.
@@OntarioGuy430 And this is just a fragment from an entire documentary about Stoffel and his girlfriend that is worth watching. And thanks to your comment, I just watched the clip again :-)
Update: Stoffel got his PhD and single handedly resolved all issues NASA was having finishing the James Webb telescope, hence the name James Webb Stoffel Telescope (JWST).
The fact that he has considered digging up mud and rolling it into balls to use as a platform shows incredible intelligence and lateral thinking. That is next level brainpower. He is awesome
People often don't give animals enough credit, but you're right - in this case Stoffel is showing an uncommon level of intelligence and problem-solving prowess.
How could you not have acquired such a respect for the animal who is that determined, that clever, that tough, that innovative, determined etc..to just set him free. I could never have an animal captive like that. Too much respect for them.
Stoffel doesn't actually try to escape. Stoffel just loves to troll his caretaker. They only built this enclosure for him because he repeatedly picked fights with the lions that are also living there. Then he found this as his new favourite game.
They don't mention it in this video but on one of his escapes Stoffel got into a lion pen and picked a fight. He was mauled fairly badly but once he recovered the next time he escaped he went right back for round 2 with the lions.
Not only tough...quite clever! Gotta admire his determination. My dad used to tell a story about being chased back to his tractor, and held captive by a badger he came across while plowing a field when he was a kid in western Kansas. Don't mess with badgers. They can tear you up!
@@andrewtow420People think they can keep something as a pet because it's cute, but then throw it out once they realize that the world doesn't work that way. Loads of exotic animals get that treatment.
He's actually making them smarter, each time the honey badger is presented with another challenge, it had to think outside the box to accomplish the problem.
Seriously. Usually when you hear those stories, they're put over B roll of the animal just doing nothing in particular. The fact that you can put Stoffle in any of the old enclosures or put a rake in his cage and instantly film him getting out again proves that the stories are all happening the way the owner says they are.
He must have recreated it more than once, too. Watch the rake carefully from 3:43 and see if you notice something wrong as Stoffle climbs it............
For sure, he is fed, he knows for sure he is safe, and escaping over and over again is a weekly game for him, no consequences except back at square one.
@@Xalerdane I had a chinese friend for 9 years. He didn't know how to speak English at all. Now he's in the UK for university. He brought he's Chinese friend along and she doesn't speak English very well. I only met her for 5 days, and I know I'm never gonna see her or possibly get close to her that much. But I really think I fell on love with her. She showed me this song cos she likes it. Now it's my favorite, and I kkow I'm never gonna see her ever again, cos were indifferent countries and language barriers and etc, I know our paths will never cross. But I'll listen to this so I can remember. And who knows I could learn Chinese, she inspired me that much.
Not too difficult these days in the UK, i`ve seen potholes that have more education and better common sense than most of the inhabitants of "Estate Britain"...
If you look up Stoffel the badger here on TH-cam there’s a video of him roughhousing and playing with the badger. As I understand Stoffel is almost 30 years old
So far I though they are one fearless little creatures and now I am astonished to see their intelligence, its at another level!!! I love these tenacious little tough creature for me Perseverance = Honey Badgers!!!! You can learn a lot from these creatures..so amazing!!1
@@sgtblackrock4997Pretty sure that's something lions always did since forever and we just recently been able to observe that. _(though of course, different prides are like different tribes, they each have their own rules)_
Honey badgers are the Pit Bulls of the wild. They are durable and courageous creatures that go up against creatures way larger than themselves. Honey badgers are masters of deterrence and are one of the few creatures in the wild that possess the closest thing to what's referred to as gameness. Gameness is basically the determination to not give up even when faced with danger or a very challenging situation. It is a quality mostly found in and associated with catch and fighting dogs such as Pit Bulls that have been selectively bred for very dangerous and challenging tasks such as controlling bulls in bullfighting matches, holding down wild pigs for hunting, and fighting each other in dogfighting matches that can last longer than some movies. Honey badgers are not exactly game, but they are the closest of any wild animal.
He sure is, every other person would have just gave up built Stoffel a dog door so he could leave and enter when ever he liked instead of thinking of more and more possible ways to try to keep him in. He want's to see what he will come up with next, and Stoffel probably also wants to see what the human tries to keep him in.
I saw this documentary a couple of years ago and couldnt stop talking and telling people about this program and how intelligence meets cunning + fearlessness, the ultimate animal.
@@ykMMD ferrets do this all the time, they love messing with their owners. I had to warn guests not to leave things on tables, or my ferret would take it and run under dressers with them. The whole family is highly smart, they can be trained with litter boxes better than most cats.
You haven’t seen the first part of this documentary, and that’s fair Most of the time when he broke out, it was to go kill other animals helpless in their pens overnight, even to the point of attacking an alpha lion (and winning), before being mauled on his second attempt on the lions (as is being mentioned right at the start), hence this little escape sequence A honey badger, is not the same as a ferret or dogs/cats or anything else like that
When I saw how he used the rocks for escaping and they took all the rocks out my next thought was "and now he will be using the dirt next" 👍 Smart little guy, just keep them on their toes 😂
Even after having watched this video many times over the year, I still laugh and keep coming back to watch again. I wonder what happened to Stoffel. Did his kids learn the same tricks?
*~ Caretaker:* _"... He scratched himself, lying on his side; he's thinking... Computer's working in..."_ *~ Stoffel:* _[Proceeds to follow the path of enlightenment and mysticism via belly dance.]_
It's to ensure that everybody knows that the entire zoo is his territory. Both all the other creatures and also the zookeepers. He wants them to know that he's not locked up in there with everyone else. They're locked up in there with him. But he can leave at any time he wants. And they can literally do nothing to stop it. But that's the reason Why he stays is because he likes it there. He gets food, he gets good treatment. He gets a place all to himself. And no matter how hard they try to stop them from leaving the basically has free rain
I feel like the people here don’t realize that stoffel is very, very old for a honey badger, for all we know, he may already be dead. Honey badgers live about 24 years in captivity and he is way older than that now.
According to the full documentary this is from, Stoffel was raised by farmers and refuses to leave the vicinity of human habitation even when he does escape (hence why they're able to catch him again in the first place); they lock him up mostly because he has a bad habit of trying to kill the other animals that are actually intended to be sent back to the wild (in fact, Stoffel originally had *two* female honey badger companions; those two were eventually returned to the wild, but Stoffel simply refused to leave).
@Puking Dino That awkward moment when you assume I bothered to dig through the comments and copy someone else's joke. Didn't even think my comment would be seen on a 5 year old video. So call me unoriginal if you want. That'd at least be somewhat accurate.
You feel happy watching these poor animals trying to escape and live a natural(free) life but never being able to and having to live out the rest of their lives in an enclosure with everything removed except dirt. Keep laughing moron
Lion 🦁: ready for round 2 small fry 😈 Honey badger 🦡: im gonna show you who's the real king of the jungle here (preparing gun noises) 👉☠ Lion 🦁: oohh shit 😱
Imagine doing everything within your brains power to keep Stoffel inside his enclosure. Then to get woken up to what you believe to be an intruder only to discover Stoffel in your kitchen making a sandwich.
@@joenobody5913 I didn't say barbed wire, i meant the same type of wire fencing you saw the badgers climbing up to open the gate to their enclosure, but i know your just thinking of the badgers safety, all the best.
It reminds me of the 60s British science fiction series “The Prisoner” starring Patrick McGoohan. He’d been a secret agent who angrily resigned “as a matter of conscience “. He gets kidnapped and is held captive in a “village”. He kept trying to escape but was always captured and sent back.
@@themermaidstale5008 I'm so glad you typed that comment, you've reminded me what a superb television series The Prisoner was. Even the opening titles and theme song were superb.
@@sarebear5207 I found smth about the zoo in Cologne (Germany), when they received a badger family: >>High security for honey badgers Although they only arrived two weeks ago, the badger family [of three] has already inspected their system closely and checked for weak points, despite the "jet lag" [from the States]. Sliwa [trustee]: "The first thing they did was crack our door handles." They are now mechanically secured. The facility is now protected by a particularly close-meshed and strong wire fence, which was also covered with plastic. Protection against digging under was installed and everything "that is not nailed down" was fastened. "They pull everything out," says Sliwa. All trees were chained and firmly wedged, grids were welded in, pipes were cemented in and water connections were fitted with steel collars. The earth basin was lined with strong wire, and the water basin was concreted in. With their strong forearms and claws, honey badgers open almost every crevice. "We even putty the stones so that they don't damage the safety glass."
And of course, he just ignored his handlers like a rowdy teenager. He was getting so much pleasure and enjoyment f****** around and driving his human handlers crazy.
“After Stoffel’s severe mauling by the lions, Brian knew that he had to get his badger under control,” sounds like the opening line of a fantastic novel.
@@isleofdead1337 I think it was the other way around, if I remember rightly. The first time he got in to the lion's pen, he successfully fought the lion, but second time the lion was ready and gave him a mauling.
Can you imagine the balls on Stoffel. He escapes and what he does, he has options : 1) Freedom or 2) go rub in the fact that he escaped AGAIN right inside the mans house
Dubai Was Lit Or honey badgers live longer than you thought they did. That’s actually more likely, because I was surprised to hear how long he’d been there as well.
_"In 1972, a badger commando was sent to prison by a military court for a crime he didn't commit._ _This badger promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground._ _Today, still wanted by the government, he survives as a soldier of fortune. If you have a problem,_ _if no one else can help, and if you can find him....maybe you can hire... STOFFEL!"_
I have a seeking suspicion that to out-wit The New World Order - where we will ALL be imprisoned in '15 minute cities' under the 'C40 cities program' - we will indeed need to learn from Soffle!
@@apple-de8tx I don't think he was raised by them. He was caught while breaking into a barn, and then saved, because otherwise a farmer had sooner or later killed him in order to protect his livelihood. But maybe I'm wrong here. Either way: he has been accustomed to humans and noticed how they care for him (feeding him etc. pp.). Feral cats can become house cats to a certain degree when enough time and patience is invested. I guess there would be no lives stock and pets if there hadn't been a point when wild animals had been domesticated. It was certainly a long process, but it was obviously possible. I say this because it is over and over again stated that a wild animals can never ever be tamed. There are animals which are next to impossible to tame (either they are not smart enough => most reptiles, or it isn't worth the effort => Zebras), others depend on the individual (and the time, money and patience you are willing to invest), and other even domesticated themselves. It also a big difference if you deal with new-borns, juveniles or full grown adults without any former contact with humans. In this case it is really next to impossible in nine out of ten.
I've been to this place. It's called the moholoholo animal rehabilitation centre in South Africa. Saw Stoffel, and yes he escaped when we were there. He bit the old guys finger when he tried to capture him.
Update on Stoffel: He finally locked the man inside and now he is in charge of the park.
Emma Ato 😂😂😂
Too 😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝
Lmao 😂
Lmao
Ha ha ha GREAT comment . His wife is counting the gate receipts.
So after he escapes he then proceeds to break INTO the guy's house, just to mess with him? Hahaha
You're killing me
Straight mad lad
😂 😂 😂
Lonzo Ball or worse a white man in a badgers body. The next thing you know he’s colonizing the area and passing out blankets contaminated with small pox.
@@Wayne44ish what race are you?
Stoffel the only inmate to break out and head directly to the wardens office to brag of his accomplishments.
"hey bro I've solved the riddle, what's next? I'm so excited"
Haha
My boy was being awful one day so we put him in his room.
He climbed out the window and ran in through the kitchen door to brag that he had gotten out.
He could have just gone to play with friends or anything.
Hubris 🤷♀️
of course he'd brag to the warden
because honey badgers don't give a shit
I think he just wanted a piece of his misses lol
“I’ve solved your riddle, now I want me prize mate!” Lol
If Stoffel didn’t think the place was an easy meal ticket, by now he probably would have stolen a car and driven right out of there.😂
Underrated comment 😂
Oh my God I LMAO😂😂🤣🤣
Is that cause he black?
Every time a prison is built they bring in the stoffel to check for flaws.
If Stoffle can't get in your house, no one can get in your house and it would be the safest place in the world. However, Stoffle IS going to get in your house.
i have a dog like him....
there no opstical to him...
30 cm high but he can jump over 1.5 m fence. from spot
@@LittleBlacksheep1995 you better believe it
epic comment bro, fuckin love this!!! 😂 😂 😂 😂
Yes , and they made a movie about it staring Sylvester Stallone as Stoffle
Now, that's a smart animal. He's not even running away. He's doing it for fun. That's another level of intelligence.
Abner Herrera he gets bored what else he gonna do
smart badger would run away and find some coke and hookers
He knows where his bread is buttered
Haha love it.
Why he is not in the series
"Prison break "
I've been there and met Stoffel. His keeper was telling us that he spends a lot of time with Stoffel and was once lying down in the pen starting to doze off. He was brought back to reality when he realised that Stoffel was trying to push him towards the wall to be used as a step. True story.
I so wish there was any kind of way I could trust this as true :(
@@TheRABIDdude Obviously there is no way that I can convince you and I did not see the incident myself. All I can say is that I was there, I live in South Africa, and that is what the keeper told us when he was giving us a talk about Stoffel and his antics. One thing that I did see was that the keeper and Stoffel were very close and had a great relationship. Stoffel is quite a character.
@@cousinjack2841 It's a lovely story, and heartwarming to know the keeper has a close friendship with the animal. I suppose there's no good way to verify someone's claims on youtube without them surrendering personal information (which would be stupid), but the story and your first-hand-account phrasing seem credible enough. And I have nothing to lose by taking it as true :) Thanks for sharing!
I believe it! Stoffle is a genius, in the badger world. He should run for office! Smarter than what we have now in the U.S.
stoffel's history and capacity lend me to believe it possible.
I've watched this so many times over the years, never take this down, please.:-) Just found a post on X from 3 months ago saying Stoffel is 26 years old and still doing well. My heart ❤
Omg same and your update just made me so happy 🥺🥰
Stoffel will never die, not in spirit anyway, he's a true force of Nature!
May he live long and prosper.
@@K6tf1shMine too I'm so happy to hear the Legend of Stoffel continues 🥹♥️
@@EsquariousI wish & Pray for the same 😊❤
He doesn't even really want to leave, as shown by the fact that when he did, he went into his keeper's room. He really is just amusing himself with this game.
@Fuert Neigt You're an idiot. Stoffle can't go into the wild. He was rescued after he was malled by lions and requires medication for his damaged kidneys once a week. They're saving his life and he's happy. Watch the entire documentary before you say he abuses the animals.
If he was in the wild now he may be too domesticated to even survive.
zen the lack of medication would be a bigger issue methinks
Undecided Earth why call someone an idiot? This is arrogant and not nice.
It does seem like abuse, if they are forcing the badger to stay when it doesn't want to.
That would make Fuert Neigt right. But if the badger can't live in the wilderness, forcing the badger might be justified. That makes you right, but it doesn't make Fuert wrong, because they are still keeping the badger against his will.
If in the documentary the badger doesn't leave after he escapes and does it just for fun, then you'd be right. But why be so angry and arrogant? Especially about someone defending the right cause? Because I too think that abuse is bad, don't you?
My point is: everything has many aspects to it and no one is an idiot, when it's about exchanging information and not about defending your ego.
@@AnthonyTheSeven is protecting an animal that can't defend itself now called animal abuse?
I like how they put a female in there to calm him down but they ended up working together
🤣🤣this is one fucked up couple
Bonnie and Clyde
I bet she bailed after the first escape, got run over by a park worker, then died. All because she didn't care and only wanted to die. Why does no one ask what happened to the girl honey badger?
"Hey baby, let's get out of here."
"Ride or Die!"
@@Naganita They had a cub.they are seperated now and she is a happy mom. Stouffel continues to escape
This absolute chad, he not only breaks out the enclosure but INTO the keepers house. That's like breaking out of prison to only break back into the wardens office.
Wardens bedroom*
@@Shaymin0 *Warden's wife's bedroom
Hahaha true. Also the replies are funny :p
@ㅤㅤღنورღ Judging by your watch history, I'd have to disagree... 😬
Steal the accounting books from the Keeper's Office and then run!
Every couple of years the Stoffel video comes by. I always click on it to watch it again.
This is the first time I have seen it - I am excited to rewatch it in a year or two.
@@OntarioGuy430 And this is just a fragment from an entire documentary about Stoffel and his girlfriend that is worth watching.
And thanks to your comment, I just watched the clip again :-)
Bro still alive at 26yrs if age
Are there other documentaries too about the Story of STOFFEL ?@@berendharmsen
Stoffel now has an engineering degree and works for NASA.
.... helping them fake future moon landings .... much more realistic this time with his help ....
Who is Stoffel an employee of NASA?? This video goes about Stoffle not Stoffel!!
Actually he left NASA in august to join Britain's MI6 Bond Stoffle Bond..
@@yonblek4542 Don't you think he's too smart to play human kiddie games like spying on each other?
😂
Legend has it that the badger's mother never gave birth to him. He escaped...
Good one
😂
😂😂😂😂😂 damn this the one
Escaped from the womb! That's great.
Have my vote, 1st time to hear an original joke.
Stoffel banging on the dudes door like he owes him money.
He actually does
KURDinEXILE Lol actually does
“Stoffel how will you get out this time?
Stoffel: Yes
Stoffel: "Psst, Noone will believe you. Noone will. "
Sneaky and smart and powerful and cute he is a very good little guy who is scared of nothing but not having a good snack before dinner hehehehe.
Bahahahaha! Nice one 😂😂😂
It's obvious that the honey badger doesn't want to escape, he just wants to piss that man off...
er both
Hilarious and true
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Untitled Badger
stoffle is 100% the type of pet that is obsessed with getting outside but always comes right back when its time to eat
Yes. So always put out some food and a trap whenever he escapes
FACTS
He's not a pet though
"pet"
Stouffel is like a prisoner breaking out of jail just to go to the wardens house to ask for some free packs of ramen.
I want, no, NEED, more stoffle stories.
I couldnt agree more. My whole worldview has been shifted
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We all want more of this savage little smartass😂
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Update: Stoffel got his PhD and single handedly resolved all issues NASA was having finishing the James Webb telescope, hence the name James Webb Stoffel Telescope (JWST).
Just remember that Stoffel broke INTO this man's house rather than trying to escape back into the wild
get rid of loose ends lmao
thats how you know it was a message
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stoffel is out for blood
hes going after that fridge lets be real u break out of alcatraz ur hungry ur thirsty he aint stupid he kkkws where the goods at
The fact that he has considered digging up mud and rolling it into balls to use as a platform shows incredible intelligence and lateral thinking. That is next level brainpower. He is awesome
I mean... most humans wouldn't even think of that.
He's smarter than many humans. You put some humans in there and they won't know how to get out.
@@SerKGrimm I heard that and was like "Dang thats a good idea, Stoffel!"
People often don't give animals enough credit, but you're right - in this case Stoffel is showing an uncommon level of intelligence and problem-solving prowess.
There are a lot of people who aren't that smart.
Stoffel breaks into man's house: "None of you seem to understand. I'm not locked in here with you. You're locked in here with *ME*"
Rorschach
A comedian died tonight.
Lmao gold
Good one 👍🤣
I thought you were kidding
How could you not have acquired such a respect for the animal who is that determined, that clever, that tough, that innovative, determined etc..to just set him free. I could never have an animal captive like that. Too much respect for them.
It's actually for its safety. Left out in the wild, he'd be some hunter's meat lunch, he noted for its skin, or the snack of some animal predator.
Stoffel doesn't actually try to escape. Stoffel just loves to troll his caretaker.
They only built this enclosure for him because he repeatedly picked fights with the lions that are also living there.
Then he found this as his new favourite game.
@@TobiasReiner-o8gnah honey badgers are the best bruh
I wish evolution rewarded us like it rewarded honey badgers
You can take my trees
you can take my rocks
but you'll never
take
MY
*FREEDOM*
- Stoffel, probably
lololol
Slightly surprised this many ppl are getting this reference. Braveheart's 25 years old now.
Lol lol lol lol
Great Quote
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You know he's showing off when he breaks into the warden's house after he's just broke out of prison😂
Lmao you know that's right
That's funny shit. I'm surprised stoffel didnt lock him in his own house. "Welcome to my world;) 😎"
What a gem this animal is
1K nice
Lmao he legendary
The keeper running after Stoffel and calling his name is the funniest thing 😂
I love how much affection that keeper has for his little mate.
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😭😭 stoffel was like ohhhh shiddddd
Like bruh knows he has a human name lmaooo
Stoffel to keeper be like : " Aha, gotcha! I found you!"
Now people love honey badgers more than ever.
They don't mention it in this video but on one of his escapes Stoffel got into a lion pen and picked a fight. He was mauled fairly badly but once he recovered the next time he escaped he went right back for round 2 with the lions.
Yeah, I figured they were keeping him in a prison for good reason
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@@Solitude1990 anything for the views
There's a crazy video of one taking on three leopards at once and comes out of it alive
You do not want to mess with crazy! No matter how small he is.
You try to imprison him. You take his trees, you take his rocks. Next thing you know he in your house, breaking into your bedroom.
He came for his wife.
And half your face is eaten. Hah try and imprison me will ya.
Next thing you know there's a rug made from a honey badger pelt.
@@nemo227 in my mausoleum
The honey badger isn't trapped with them. They are trapped with the honey badger
What a gentleman waiting for his woman to come down and leaving together.
why does this make me laugh so hard?!?!?!?!
Only if you look, he didnt wait
He made her do all the work opening the gate ;-P
@@opalskycanvas not only that... smart ass risked her getting injured instead of him.
sway4all being handsome isn't the same as being a gentleman...
Not only tough...quite clever! Gotta admire his determination.
My dad used to tell a story about being chased back to his tractor, and held captive by a badger he came across while plowing a field when he was a kid in western Kansas.
Don't mess with badgers. They can tear you up!
Western Kansas? Honey badger?
@@andrewtow420People think they can keep something as a pet because it's cute, but then throw it out once they realize that the world doesn't work that way. Loads of exotic animals get that treatment.
He's actually making them smarter, each time the honey badger is presented with another challenge, it had to think outside the box to accomplish the problem.
"Accomplish the problem?"
Was thinking the exact same thing
I would argue that he "solved" the problems.
Exactly
Plot twist: he is engineering super badgers to take over the world.
The fact that this little creature is recreating everything on camera makes it a thousand times better
underrated comment +
Seriously. Usually when you hear those stories, they're put over B roll of the animal just doing nothing in particular. The fact that you can put Stoffle in any of the old enclosures or put a rake in his cage and instantly film him getting out again proves that the stories are all happening the way the owner says they are.
Haha!!
Yes
True!!!
That is a different badger. Works as a body double for a living.
He must have recreated it more than once, too. Watch the rake carefully from 3:43 and see if you notice something wrong as Stoffle climbs it............
I'm more amazed that you had manage to catch him each time he escape. He probably let you catch him on purpose so that he can make another escape.
For sure, he is fed, he knows for sure he is safe, and escaping over and over again is a weekly game for him, no consequences except back at square one.
@@Z0Z99 he needs a straitjacket😂
If he’s smart enough to figure out how to make mud and pile it up in the corner, he’s smart enough to realize that the humans aren’t a threat to him.
@@Xalerdane I had a chinese friend for 9 years. He didn't know how to speak English
at all. Now he's in the UK for university. He brought he's Chinese
friend along and she doesn't speak English very well.
I only met her for 5 days, and I know I'm never gonna see her or
possibly get close to her that much. But I really think I fell on love
with her.
She showed me this song cos she likes it.
Now it's my favorite, and I kkow I'm never gonna see her ever again, cos
were indifferent countries and language barriers and etc, I know our
paths will never cross.
But I'll listen to this so I can remember. And who knows I could learn
Chinese, she inspired me that much.
@@stevethea5250 what..
I've never seen an animal able to problem solve to the degree Stoffel does. The mud balls blew my mind, he's a genius! I love that honey badger🤣🤣🤣
He has better problem solving skills than most people in my neighborhood.
True dat
I'm guessing you live in a democrat city full of minorities
Yep,.
Not too difficult these days in the UK, i`ve seen potholes that have more education and better common sense than most of the inhabitants of "Estate Britain"...
You must live in an urban area
The guy running after the badger and calling him "STOFFEL!" is one of the best parts ever :)))
lol cue the benny hill music
If you look up Stoffel the badger here on TH-cam there’s a video of him roughhousing and playing with the badger. As I understand Stoffel is almost 30 years old
@@RobertSmith-le8wp where’s the video? Can you please link it?
Lol that part made me laugh too
Stoffels chunky butt just bopping around LOL
Legend has it the guy is in the pen now and Stoffle lives in the house.
😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂
Legend has it stoffle even got out of debt
By also stealing his wife, possessions and whole identity.
🤔🤯😱🤡
Haha
So far I though they are one fearless little creatures and now I am astonished to see their intelligence, its at another level!!! I love these tenacious little tough creature for me Perseverance = Honey Badgers!!!! You can learn a lot from these creatures..so amazing!!1
I hope that someday Stoffel will write a book about his adventures.
he bit a lion in the tenders 0-0
he’s writing it right now
He's the honeybadger papillon.
😂😂😂
The funny part is that if you replace the 'o' in his name with an 'a' you get the world 'staffel' which means 'chapter' in German.
I want Stoffle on my apocalypse survival team.
“Stoffel”
🤣🤣🤣
He'd get out but you'd be the dead meat😆
I need him on my team
He'd kill you and use your corpse to climb a fence.
(Jan.'23).Stoffel is still alive and well...and somehow still in his enclosure.. What an awesome creature..
:3
They're learning from us...all animals are. Lions are taking care of their injured and sick pride members in some places now.
@@sgtblackrock4997Pretty sure that's something lions always did since forever and we just recently been able to observe that. _(though of course, different prides are like different tribes, they each have their own rules)_
(I'm not doubting you) but where did you get the info he was still alive and well?
I guess the grim reaper is too amused to kill him.
Honey badgers are the Pit Bulls of the wild. They are durable and courageous creatures that go up against creatures way larger than themselves. Honey badgers are masters of deterrence and are one of the few creatures in the wild that possess the closest thing to what's referred to as gameness. Gameness is basically the determination to not give up even when faced with danger or a very challenging situation. It is a quality mostly found in and associated with catch and fighting dogs such as Pit Bulls that have been selectively bred for very dangerous and challenging tasks such as controlling bulls in bullfighting matches, holding down wild pigs for hunting, and fighting each other in dogfighting matches that can last longer than some movies. Honey badgers are not exactly game, but they are the closest of any wild animal.
That old kind man is Lowkey proud of Stoffel. He speaks about him, as some parents would do about their troublesome, yet smart kids.
Exactly what it seems 😂😂😂
if i were him i'd be very proud of my little mischievous devil lol
Stoffel is escaping to warn the other animals about Brian.
That's a love !
He sure is, every other person would have just gave up built Stoffel a dog door so he could leave and enter when ever he liked instead of thinking of more and more possible ways to try to keep him in. He want's to see what he will come up with next, and Stoffel probably also wants to see what the human tries to keep him in.
Stoffle not only escapes any entrapment you try, he also comes to your house to flex about it.
This is what happens when when you hand rear an intelligent wild animal.
They get used to the smell of softener in your duvet.
HaHa! It's true.
LMAO oh god that made my day.
Stone o'Mountain lmao wtf 😂😂😂
Lol. Stoffle
The old man bans stoffle from the prison and sets him free
Stoffle: time to break in
Now that makes a good novel story idea!~
Looooool
I saw this documentary a couple of years ago and couldnt stop talking and telling people about this program and how intelligence meets cunning + fearlessness, the ultimate animal.
Having raised animals. Stoffel isn't trying to escape, he is messing with the caretakers. Breaking into the house is epic trolling
This deserves a research grant.
What animals have you raised?
@@ykMMD ferrets do this all the time, they love messing with their owners.
I had to warn guests not to leave things on tables, or my ferret would take it and run under dressers with them.
The whole family is highly smart, they can be trained with litter boxes better than most cats.
Cattle, hogs, dogs, cats, chickens, ducks, peacocks, and a few others. The boars were the ones who got out just to get out
You haven’t seen the first part of this documentary, and that’s fair
Most of the time when he broke out, it was to go kill other animals helpless in their pens overnight, even to the point of attacking an alpha lion (and winning), before being mauled on his second attempt on the lions (as is being mentioned right at the start), hence this little escape sequence
A honey badger, is not the same as a ferret or dogs/cats or anything else like that
Stoffel rolling up mud balls for them to harden and then climbing them I actually find insane. I wouldn’t even be able to think of that
Stoffel is the Tesla of the animal world.
exactly
Josh Drake you would man
When I saw how he used the rocks for escaping and they took all the rocks out my next thought was "and now he will be using the dirt next" 👍 Smart little guy, just keep them on their toes 😂
@@watermelonlalala nah, he has better range and doesn't leak water inside
My favorite part is that Stoffle never runs away- he just lets himself be caught again because he gets his kicks escaping from his enclosure.
Like the joker
@@blackspiderman1887 Escape! I wouldn't want to escape.
*You complete Me*
You_just , he got out of that rectangular walls doesn’t means he “escaped” the entire area is fenced off.
@@timminh468 So you think a fence could stop him if he really wanted out? And yes he did escape he escaped the enclosure he was in.
it's enrichment
Even after having watched this video many times over the year, I still laugh and keep coming back to watch again. I wonder what happened to Stoffel. Did his kids learn the same tricks?
"...and after all that, we finally devised a system to keep him in the enclosure."
*Stoffel escapes in the background
One word, moats.
@@stoybenxi7395 He would build a makeshift raft and swim over it
@@stoybenxi7395 guided missiles
That meme of Rhino escaping
Ohh muh god
quick we need mark rober
Clearly, Stoffel should be put in charge of park security.
That's what FBI CIA do with these high elite criminals, they hire them and use their knowledge to improve security
@@bathombre9739 do they really
@@flowergirl5336 a few probably, those that are cooperative and less likely to stab you in the neck
@@cianbarry9207 More like thief's that don't kill or threaten. Like a night thief
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
*~ Caretaker:* _"... He scratched himself, lying on his side; he's thinking... Computer's working in..."_
*~ Stoffel:* _[Proceeds to follow the path of enlightenment and mysticism via belly dance.]_
Hippy honey badger step it up to the man.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Geo Leo legitimately the best TH-cam comment I’ve ever stumbled across 🤣👌🏻
That scene was the cutest
that belly dance was cute
Such an astonishing level of intelligence for a tiny creature! Blows my mind the many ways which he made an escape!
The best part? He wasn't even doing all that to escape, just to wreak some havoc around the zoo.
His objective is chaos
It is a Lovely Day at the Park, And you are a Terrible Terrible Honey Badger.
It's to ensure that everybody knows that the entire zoo is his territory. Both all the other creatures and also the zookeepers. He wants them to know that he's not locked up in there with everyone else. They're locked up in there with him. But he can leave at any time he wants. And they can literally do nothing to stop it. But that's the reason Why he stays is because he likes it there. He gets food, he gets good treatment. He gets a place all to himself. And no matter how hard they try to stop them from leaving the basically has free rain
@@lornbaker1083he gets free rain? It’s illegal to collect rainwater here in America for some stupid reason. 😅
@@ThumbDrI think that's just in California.
i feel like he’s earned his freedom at this point
Exactly. Let him be free.
Ya I don’t think they should keep honey badgers enclosed for years and years. They should let them free.
I feel like the people here don’t realize that stoffel is very, very old for a honey badger, for all we know, he may already be dead. Honey badgers live about 24 years in captivity and he is way older than that now.
According to the full documentary this is from, Stoffel was raised by farmers and refuses to leave the vicinity of human habitation even when he does escape (hence why they're able to catch him again in the first place); they lock him up mostly because he has a bad habit of trying to kill the other animals that are actually intended to be sent back to the wild (in fact, Stoffel originally had *two* female honey badger companions; those two were eventually returned to the wild, but Stoffel simply refused to leave).
@@umbrellashotgunman key words “according to”
I love how they in an attempt to calm him down ended up giving him an accomplice.
Just like Joker and Harley Quinn
Lmao.lol
Partners in crime
Kruut Von Trendkilla hes a guy, and well......lol
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Stoffel is my spirit animal
Ok youtube algorithm, I watched it - it was good. Thanks.
lol yeah, it's been on my homepage insistently for the last few days!
🙃
5 years later smh
they got me 2 😅😂😂😂
Luke Faulkner
Definitely worth procrastinating more important tasks for 😄
That awkward moment when a honey badger is better at puzzle solving than you are.
LilyLaya your 200th like. 👍
You’re really that stupid?
@@Gblonkers well the mud rolling got me by surprise
@Puking Dino That awkward moment when you assume I bothered to dig through the comments and copy someone else's joke.
Didn't even think my comment would be seen on a 5 year old video. So call me unoriginal if you want. That'd at least be somewhat accurate.
@Puking Dino Whatever makes you feel more powerful dude.
whenever life gets hard, I come here to feel happy and motivated by Stoffel. He's the epitome of 'never give up' for me. Stoffel, my hero!
Me too it's a fun place to be , love watching they're antics ,🤭
i just got to know him and i‘m enjoying every bit
You feel happy watching these poor animals trying to escape and live a natural(free) life but never being able to and having to live out the rest of their lives in an enclosure with everything removed except dirt. Keep laughing moron
🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽 YES !!
Stoffel is the spirit we need right now. Never give up AND a sense of humour.
Let's be real. . Both of them are both amazing escape artists.
It was a joint effort and a joint orchestration.
2024: Stoffle becomes CEO of a Global Security Company
2026 he nukes the planet
21000 he escapes reality
goutham 😂 this comment chain ahaha
2050 he saved the world from climate changes
No timeline for me: he already savagely ripped both, the delicate fabrics of human logic and reality itself with its crafty tenacity.
I just love the parts where he is caught and the chaser is like "Stoffle!" And then Stoffle looks at him and starts running away. Classic Stoffle!
and he makes that cute little grunt or snort sound.
I kept thinking this would be something in a cartoon
My favourite part, too!
Almost got a heart attack laughing about "Classic Stoffle"
Lol classic Stoffle
He’s lowkey so proud of him 😂😂
LOL
I would be proud too 😂😂
Mans is to smart for them
you can hear it in his voice
It took 10 yrs for the algorithm to place this in my feed and i enjoyed it, stoffel is hilarious 😂😂😂
Stoffle upon entering the caretaker's bedroom:
"I need yah clothes, yah boots, and yah motocycle."
“Do I look like I’m frickin around?!”
Who’s Zed?
Lmao
...and your wife
misjosh81 wrong movie dog
Someone tapped me on the shoulder and recommended this to me...
...It was Stoffle
😂😂😂😂
😅
😂😂💀💀💀💯
Stoffle is so good
Too funny!
This seems like an old cartoon where the badger is always escaping and the man just keeps going crazier. Haha
lol that's a great idea
I seriously just had like a 10 episode flash through my mind. Lmao
The Pink Honey Badger. How about that?
@@EmCitynWaterCo Tudu Tudu Ttttduu da du du du
your comment is so funny Paul :D :D
Stoffel: I enjoy this easy, happpy life, but I need to train my human to keep me entertained.
Stoffle:*borred*
Stoffle: aight imma head out
DEMACIAA
It's editing
@@dropit7850 The wise words of Stoffle are gospel. He does not edit, even when he's borred. AIGHT? Now pyss awff.
🦡📜
@@nuckinfuts7610 💀💀💀💀
3:32 "He's thinking, computers working."
Stoffle: * becomes a bellydancer *
Mikine Kune 😂😂😂
That's my favorite part! Hahaha!
hahaha he is making fun of the warden,, you can't outwit me
He needed a glow stick and trance music
Hahaha yes that's what i thought 😂
*gets bored in any prison*
Stoffle: ight imma head out
hell is lit af great one
hell is lit af
😅
And there it is.
You seriously need to learn proper English.
@@CalintzJerevinan546 Bruh
Someone once said if honey badgers were as big as lions, we’d all be extinct.
Nightmare fuel
Including lions
I will genetically modify honey badgers genes to increase their size and muscle mass + bones mass
"After Stoffle's severe mauling by the lions..."
I bet Stoffle wanted a second go at the lions. Probably went looking for a gun at his master's place.
Second one didn't go well. He got injured
There's a full video of it.
58mins
Is there a 3rd one, and by chance did he somehow grab a shotgun for the lions?
He doesn't Need a gun against Lions
Lion 🦁: ready for round 2 small fry 😈
Honey badger 🦡: im gonna show you who's the real king of the jungle here (preparing gun noises) 👉☠
Lion 🦁: oohh shit 😱
🦡: Say hello to my little friend! *pump shotgun*
Imagine doing everything within your brains power to keep Stoffel inside his enclosure. Then to get woken up to what you believe to be an intruder only to discover Stoffel in your kitchen making a sandwich.
Yeah lol. He's all like "sup? sandwich?......oh yeah, you locked me in again, all good though"
Why not put a wire fence over the top of the enclosure?
I know, i know, he'll just dig under the wall.
🤣🤣
@@samuellowekey9271 You don't give him barbed wire to play with!!! This fuckin thing will make some dangerous weapon out of it or something
@@joenobody5913 I didn't say barbed wire, i meant the same type of wire fencing you saw the badgers climbing up to open the gate to their enclosure, but i know your just thinking of the badgers safety, all the best.
Another year and Stoffle will be doing a TedTalk on his escape from alcatraz.
Ben King Followed by a biopic with that kid from Harry Potter and some Australian actors butchering the Afrikaans accent.
They should hire Stoffle to test out if the prison's actually work.
lolol
😆😂😂
😂😂😂
😂😂😂 This is amazing! Stoffel is an absolute legend
The fact that he had no intention of leaving and still managed to escape that's another level of intelligence
It reminds me of the 60s British science fiction series “The Prisoner” starring Patrick McGoohan. He’d been a secret agent who angrily resigned “as a matter of conscience “. He gets kidnapped and is held captive in a “village”. He kept trying to escape but was always captured and sent back.
@@themermaidstale5008 I'm so glad you typed that comment, you've reminded me what a superb television series The Prisoner was. Even the opening titles and theme song were superb.
Its cos he was a pet. And also that boring enclosure would be pure hell for an intelligent animal like that
And that he can do it for the cameras 😂
@@sarebear5207 I found smth about the zoo in Cologne (Germany), when they received a badger family: >>High security for honey badgers
Although they only arrived two weeks ago, the badger family [of three] has already inspected their system closely and checked for weak points, despite the "jet lag" [from the States]. Sliwa [trustee]: "The first thing they did was crack our door handles." They are now mechanically secured.
The facility is now protected by a particularly close-meshed and strong wire fence, which was also covered with plastic. Protection against digging under was installed and everything "that is not nailed down" was fastened. "They pull everything out," says Sliwa.
All trees were chained and firmly wedged, grids were welded in, pipes were cemented in and water connections were fitted with steel collars. The earth basin was lined with strong wire, and the water basin was concreted in. With their strong forearms and claws, honey badgers open almost every crevice. "We even putty the stones so that they don't damage the safety glass."
The fact he’s doing it because he’s bored not so that he can run away is just hilarious to me
Lmfaoo
That was nothing more than a game & enrichment for Stoffell. I loved how the keepers would run after him yelling his name 😂❤️
And of course, he just ignored his handlers like a rowdy teenager. He was getting so much pleasure and enjoyment f****** around and driving his human handlers crazy.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
lmaooooooo! Those parts had me cracking up! Them yelling his name running after him! This is all a fun game to him and I love this so much!
Yes 😂 you could just tell he was snickering the whole way through
I cracked up at that too 😂
“After Stoffel’s severe mauling by the lions, Brian knew that he had to get his badger under control,” sounds like the opening line of a fantastic novel.
Phrasing
Lol
@@nishav101822 😉
Fun fact: after Stoffel healed from his injuries he broke out of his own enclosure, broke back into the lion’s, fought them and won.
@@isleofdead1337 I think it was the other way around, if I remember rightly. The first time he got in to the lion's pen, he successfully fought the lion, but second time the lion was ready and gave him a mauling.
Can you imagine the balls on Stoffel. He escapes and what he does, he has options : 1) Freedom or 2) go rub in the fact that he escaped AGAIN right inside the mans house
Solid comment XD
To bad he broke a window to get in, would have been funnier if he didn't. Don't get me wrong That part was super funny though
At this point he doesn’t run away because he likes the challenge and has fun with it 😂
And broke into THE BEDROOM NO LESS.
@@Zen-751 omgosh THAT IS THE FUNNIEST PART ITS LIKE THE YOGI BEAR N THE RANGER..
Stoffle and his owner deserve their own animated show. The possibilities are endless... like Road Runner
It was called "Prison Break", I think.
It’s been done man. It was called Bodger and Honey Badger....
His owner? From what I saw it was Stoffle doing the owning.
Electrocuted Frog hahaha true!
omg yes. We should all write to Louie Zong and ask him to animate this.
That honey badger is awesome. That is really smart. Wasn't clumsy with the tools either when grabbing them. Incredible and funny
People are ignoring the fact that this is all done after being mauled by a lion.
This badger is a legend
Are you sure it's not Stoffel that mauled the lion?
@Eugene Flores Honey badger regularly steal food from lions.
They Give No Fucks.
Thats why they are trying to secure the beast, to protect the poor lions
Theres video of a honeybadger taking on 6 lions and he walks away at the end like it was nothing.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahhahahahaheheh
"Get busy living or get busy dying"- Stoffel
"Fort Hancock, Texas please." - Stoffel
"We sat and drank ice cold Bohemian style beer" -Stoffel
"The funny thing is, on the outside, I was an honest honey badger, straight as an arrow. I had to come to Moholoholo to be a crook." - Stoffel
Stoffel's wife: I remember thinking it would take a honey badger 600 years to tunnel through the wall with it. Stoffel did it in less than 20.
“Ahh crikey, the BBC’s back. Haven’t I escaped enough for them... but, the show must go on” -Stoffel
Stoffle: Bahahahaha, I'm a criminal mastermind,
Zookeeper: We'll give him a companion to calm down.
Female badger: Bahahaha-
Wow you made my day, thanks!
Lol
Just close cage...
I Am Too Lazy To Come Up With A Name 😂😂😂
The Bonnie and Clyde
They should make a video game based on this
the honey badger doing a celebration dance at 3:34 is HILARIOUS
dances better than me
Also nice music to complement the dance there
No he is planning his next escape like an architect
He is scratching himself
Billy Slick
EUREKA moments are ALWAYS CELEBRATION moments
"I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in with me" - Stoffel the Honey Badger Zoo Manager
Just let him go man. He's earned it.
Funny thing is, he will probably stick around, he loves the game and really is quite happy there.
He just wants
R E S P E C T!!!
They give him medicine that keeps him alive, so if they did let him go, he wouldn't last long
Isaac Onyach
He’s there because he’s non-releasable. If he could have been released, he would have been 20 years ago.
Dubai Was Lit
The full documentary said that he was at least 20 years old.
Dubai Was Lit
Or honey badgers live longer than you thought they did. That’s actually more likely, because I was surprised to hear how long he’d been there as well.
_"In 1972, a badger commando was sent to prison by a military court for a crime he didn't commit._
_This badger promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground._
_Today, still wanted by the government, he survives as a soldier of fortune. If you have a problem,_
_if no one else can help, and if you can find him....maybe you can hire... STOFFEL!"_
I have a seeking suspicion that to out-wit The New World Order - where we will ALL be imprisoned in '15 minute cities' under the 'C40 cities program' - we will indeed need to learn from Soffle!
Stoffel secretly loves this guy....
He never seems to go very far. He's having a great time figuring out all his new puzzles everyday.
"Stoffel proved" is now the highest security seal in the world.
And he runs away instead of confronting the guy as a hostile badger would normally do. It's more like: catch me if you can, human *hahahah
yes, because he was raised by humans, it's not wild.
@@apple-de8tx I don't think he was raised by them. He was caught while breaking into a barn, and then saved, because otherwise a farmer had sooner or later killed him in order to protect his livelihood.
But maybe I'm wrong here.
Either way: he has been accustomed to humans and noticed how they care for him (feeding him etc. pp.). Feral cats can become house cats to a certain degree when enough time and patience is invested.
I guess there would be no lives stock and pets if there hadn't been a point when wild animals had been domesticated. It was certainly a long process, but it was obviously possible. I say this because it is over and over again stated that a wild animals can never ever be tamed.
There are animals which are next to impossible to tame (either they are not smart enough => most reptiles, or it isn't worth the effort => Zebras), others depend on the individual (and the time, money and patience you are willing to invest), and other even domesticated themselves.
It also a big difference if you deal with new-borns, juveniles or full grown adults without any former contact with humans. In this case it is really next to impossible in nine out of ten.
@@bluerisk I stopped reading to "a farmer had sooner or later killed him" because I realized that it was a fairy tale
If stoffle dies he will be the first to escape from the afterlife
Sylvester Malifa It’s “Stoffel”. Don’t trust the BBC with Afrikaans spelling.
That's IF he dies. We all know he'll escape death.
No he WILL DIE
If.
I like how you say IF he dies....
I've been to this place. It's called the moholoholo animal rehabilitation centre in South Africa. Saw Stoffel, and yes he escaped when we were there. He bit the old guys finger when he tried to capture him.
Thanks for letting us know
Oh God lol
I’ll cross Moholoholoholoholoh off my bucket list!
@@vickyhibbs lol If you ever get the chance to go, I would recommend it. Stoffel was clearly the star around the place though.
I’ve heard of this place watching Vervet Monkey Rehabilitation.
Honey badger are my spirit animal to be free and fearless animal on this Earth!
So we put a female in his enclosure to help him relax
Stoffel: Hm what is that I see, an accomplice??
humans didn't realise thats actually 2x badger intelligence.
probably just made him to want escape more :)
@@mbchudno lol 😀
pls someone put a female in my enclosure to help me relax
@@mrniceguy4277 ur dont want it