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In search of beeswax, the greater honeyguide helps humans in Africa locate bee nests full of honey. sciencenews.org/article/human-…

#DidYouKnow that honeyguides have a darker side - they are brood parasites! Let us know your #honeyguidestories. Share your sightings at honeyguiding.me #birds #CitizenScience #ornithology

Latest from #theBOUblog: Searching for honey with the Greater Honeyguide in Nigeria bou.org.uk/blog-ishaku-ho… #ornithology

Yellow-rumped Honeyguide on beehive in Bhutan. April 2019

Celebrating #WorldBeeDay & the #WildlifeEconomy! In Africa, the Greater Honeyguide bird assists humans in finding honey. A fascinating example of cooperation in nature. Let's protect these traditions and habitats for future generations!

Honey badgers don’t care! Or do they... and work together with honeyguide birds to steal from bees? For our collaborative paper out today in @JZoology, we looked into the evidence that honey badgers and honeyguides cooperate to access bees’ nests🍯…lpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jz… (1/7)

I'm often called and led to the bee hives by the Greater Honeyguide but when I lay the table for him to eat, it is the Lesser Honeyguide (seen here) that arrives first at the "dinner table".

An animal behaviour has become famous despite possibly not existing: A bird called the greater honeyguide summons an animal called a honey badger to help it break into a beehive, and the two share the plunder Scientists have never seen it, but... newscientist.com/article/238798…

African honeyguide birds understand and respond to the culturally distinct signals made by local human honey hunters, suggesting cultural coevolution between species, according to a new Science study. Learn more on #NationalBirdDay: scim.ag/5pm

A sub-adult male Greater Honeyguide. When fully grown he'll have a pink bill.

Little Bee-Eater feeding Juvenile Greater Honeyguide #wildearth

[Thread] I will now explain our new study about people cooperating with honeyguide birds, using Lego and graphs (and Lego graphs). This study was a great team effort: Honeyguide Research Project Claire Spottiswoode Jessica van der Wal Jess Lund + many not on Twitter.

Introducing our #ISBE2024 plenary speakers: Prof Claire Spottiswoode (University of Cape Town & University of Cambridge). Claire’s research includes coevolution between brood-parasitic birds and their hosts, and mutualism between honeyguides and humans. science.uct.ac.za/fitzpatrick/cl…

Congrats to this year’s #Humboldt Research Award winners Humboldt-Stiftung , here Prof. Claire Spottiswoode, Cape Town, ZA Claire Spottiswoode

We are excited to announce the first ever Max Planck Center in Africa! Together with the University of Cape Town, we will open the 'Max Planck–University of Cape Town Centre for Behaviour and Coevolution'. A milestone for Max Planck Society and international science policy.  Read

Exciting news! Our honeyguide research is now funded by the newly launched Max Planck-University of Cape Town Centre for Behaviour and Coevolution, under the direction of Claire Spottiswoode and Bart Kempenaers. 🌍🔬 #ornithology mpg.de/22030745/max-p…

🍯🤝Honeyguides & humans: a sweet deal! Our new paper quantifies how these birds boost honey-hunter income in Reserva Especial do Niassa, Moçambique— where 75% of honey harvests rely on them! A vital mutualism for livelihoods & culture in miombo woodlands: doi.org/10.1016/j.ecos…

🏆Our hearty congratulations to Prof Claire Spottiswoode on being elected a Fellow of the Royal Society! Read our news item: bit.ly/3H4rCCk Honeyguide Research Project Claire Spottiswoode FitzPatrick Ins The Royal Society