Sunday 24 July 2016

In Africa, Birds and Humans Form a Unique Honey Hunting Party

In Africa, Birds and Humans Form a Unique Honey Hunting Party

Tribesmen and honeyguides share an ancient pact and communicate in trills and grunts, scientists report. The shared goal: beehives full of honey and wax. The findings cast fresh light on one of only a few known examples of cooperation between humans and free-living wild animals, a partnership that may well predate the love affair between people and their domesticated dogs by hundreds of thousands of years.

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