Meet the Greater Honeyguide, the Bird That Understands Humans
WEBAug 22, 2016 · The zoologist from the University of Cambridge has spent the past eight years studying the species’s dark side in the wooded savannas of southern Africa. Minutes after entering the world, Greater Honeyguide chicks turn murderous, using the barbed ends of their beaks to slay their nest mates.
Forget Bees: This Bird Has the Sweetest Deal With Honey …
WEBJul 21, 2016 · Yao honey-hunter Musaji Muamedi gathers wax on a bed of green leaves, to reward the honeyguide that showed him a bees’ nest. Claire N. Spottiswoode Honeyguides are brood parasites as well as ...
Honeyguide - Wikipedia
WEBAfrican honeyguide birds are known to lay their eggs in underground nests of other bee-eating bird species. The honeyguide chicks kill the hatchlings of the host using their needle-sharp beaks just after hatching, much as cuckoo hatchlings do.
These birds help humans find honey. But it’s rare—and getting …
WEBJan 17, 2024 · But in a rare and millennia-old collaboration, honey hunters in Africa get help finding bees’ nests from a small brown bird called the greater honeyguide.
Looking for honey? This African bird will heed your call and take ... - NPR
WEBDec 7, 2023 · In Mozambique, a honeyguide bird led Yao honey-hunter Carvalho Issa Nanguar to this bees' nest. He's using smoke and an axe to harvest the honey.
18 Amazing Honeyguide Bird Facts - Fact Animal
WEBThe female honeyguide lays one egg in the nest of a specific host bird, who then incubates the egg and rears the hatchling as its own. Host species include barbets, bee-eaters, kingfishers, and starlings.
How Wild Birds Team Up With Humans To Guide Them To Honey
WEBJul 21, 2016 · A study shows how wild birds and people communicate to find bees' nests and share the sweet honeycomb. The teamwork may date back thousands of years or more.
Greater honeyguide - Wikipedia
WEBThe greater honeyguide feeds primarily on the contents of bee colonies: beeswax, eggs, larvae and pupae; and waxworms. It enters bees' nests while the bees are torpid in the early morning, feeds at abandoned hives and scavenges at hives robbed by people or other large animals, notably the honey badger.
Birds that lead people to honey recognize local calls from
WEBDec 7, 2023 · When people in the Niassa Special Reserve of northern Mozambique hanker for something sweet, they don’t call DoorDash or Uber Eats. They call a bird. The aptly named honeyguide will lead them to a bee nest so they can harvest the honey. The bird obtains a treat, too—scrumptious wax and bee larvae.
Successful honey-hunters know how to communicate with wild birds
WEBDec 8, 2023 · Wild honeyguide birds prefer to cooperate with people who have learned local cultural traditions to find and access honey-filled bees’ nests, a new study has found.
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