Some of thebees were then shakenvigorously for one minute — an experience intended toreproducethepresumablyalarmingfeelingof a honeybadgerattacking their hive.
Mathieu's quick rise to stardom parallels that of thehoneybadger, an animal that was little understood until the mid-1990s when Keith and Colleen Begg undertook the first intensive study of it.