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- Discover how researchers from the University of Cambridge and the University of Cape Town made a surprising link between birds, humans and honey.
By following honeyguide birds, people in Africa - Mozambique in particular - can locate bees' nests to harvest honey.
The research project, led by Dr Claire Spottiswoode, reveals that humans use special calls to solicit the help of honeyguide. Also, honeyguides actively recruit appropriate human partners.
This relationship is a unique example of cooperation between humans and free-living animals.
Uncover the secrets behind this remarkable cooperative relationship, and learn the benefits of honey harvesting in Mozambique.
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I just learned about this. This is something that could only happen through centuries of generations that spend more time outdoors. It's extremely fascinating to see. It's also proof that humans don't have to wall themselves off from nature 100% of the time and we should learn to listen to the land rather than destroy it.
or we could just mass produce honey 😎
Yes, talking to the bird is impressive but... pulling the honey out of the beehive with your bare hands... wow!
They use smoke to pacify them
Bears do that all the time, but they have thick fur to Protect them.
Without a shirt too.. 😳🤑😆
smoke makes the bees deezy and they can do nothing
this is how they collect the honey without hurting any bees
Black peoples in Africa get used to it it doesn't heart them
I'm more impressed with the Africans than the birds tbh, how this collaborative effort to find honey came about should be one of the worlds great mysteries
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Acid Blood there are dolphins that help people fish while taking the scraps.
There is a species of bird that sings a special call when they see water, and indigenous people in the Amazon know where the water is located by the way the bird calls and responds to other birds.
A relationship could envolve from there with humans eating and leaving lots of scraps and crumbs.
Birds that are more human friendly would get enough food and maybe even shelter with animals that avoid us not hurting them
The bird needs help getting the honey and the people need help finding money they both get what they need out of it friendship born out of necessity
I believe the bird has a symbiotic relationship with a few species, such as honey badgers. The honey badgers raid the hive, and the bird gets the scraps. The birds just did the same with humans is all.
It's a good thing that you clarified that Claire had the hat on when pictured with those two African hunters or else I wouldn't have been able to tell him apart lmfao
The hunter on the left also had a hat on…
The bird has a very good memory, if you don't give him honey after he led you to the beehive, next time he'll lead you to a lions den.
😂
Honeyguides eat insects and beeswax, but not honey. That is for humans.
So everyone gets their share of the hive.
That's a funny myth
@@twaynewade2544 No, it's not. It is even spoken of in some old historical accounts of the veld. Though whether that is because the bird dislikes you - I think that part is speculative.
It probably happens less nowadays though, because the bush used to be packed to the brim with animals, including large predators. Not so anymore.
I do believe it. Also probably it has to do with a dislike of the bird i mean, concidering how they come into this world......
Faith in humanity and Animal Kingdom restored.
Jake Hunter humanity is in the animal kingdom
1:44 thats claire in the hat... i hardly noticed
Hahahahah RIGHTT
Absolutely love this.
The way they could work with nature hand in hand beautiful
Makes you wonder how it could have been now without technology
1:43 oh gee, thank you so much, i never would have known which one was claire
thats interesting and refreshing that it wasn't a subject involving politics, war or death.
@Kneon Knight only bow to God
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The craziest part IMO is that the noise we hear was probably the exact noise use by our ancestors who probably used the honeyguide for ages
So interesting how friendly and intentionally helpful they are despite being completely wild creatures. I wonder if they act the same for other animals (not honeybadgers, that's a myth) or this evolved specifically with us. Too bad little thought is given to them other than in the context of badgers.
Most likley big brain birds saw how humans are powerful, and realized thet like to take honey or somthing with bees nest that gives it food.
@@EE-us9we yeah, it probably dates back a few hundred years. Shame how no one in Africa thought of recording history. (well, and lots of knowledge was also lost)
There's not a lot of animals that can help them get the honey out of the tree.
It's a friendship born out of necessity
@@martinhorvath4117 Africans did record history, most of which was lost or destroyed by Whites colonizers.
@@witchplease9695 I really doubt that since Africans didn't really have a written language(except North Africa)
@1:44 "That's Claire there in the hat."
Oh, you mean, Claire isn't one of the two men? Strange.
I know, right? That politically oversensitive evasion of the obvious was more interesting to me than the subject of the video.
Alternative script: "There are two people wearing headwear, and two people holding something, but there's only one person wearing headwear _and_ holding something; that's Claire, the white woman who is otherwise indistinguishable from two black men."
dont assume genders
what? i thought claire was the black dude on the left when he said that
😅😂🤣
MC
It could totally be a random picture of another scientist or even someone working in the reserve, hence the clarification.
I think the problem here is people like you seeing politically "oversensitiveness" everywhere.
That’s some beautiful symbiosis... meanwhile, the bees don’t call them honeyguides, they call them f*#kin’ disaster items.
There's a story about orca that helped men herd whales to shore for meat in Australia, the mutual pay off was the prized peace for the orca - the preys tongue and lips
What gets me is the dance when the man pulls out the honey lol it’s so sweet
So great, nature is incredibly beautiful! Thanks so much for showing this video :-)
Its amazing.. that is why I very much love animals
Honestly that’s amazing
That singing at the end :D
Claire in the hat 😂 on the left yeah? Cool
I thought Claire was the African man in the T-shirt.
Amazing
Amazing!
Is there any option to use a small amount of your video to other youtube video with different language? with credit obviously.
Thank you for the great information !! xD
Prachtig dit de samenwerking tussen mens en dier 😍.
Hoi Johan
What makes that call special to honey guides? How do the tribesman know that call?
Did the bird species make this sound, earlier in time (say 2000, 5000 years ago)? Has it stopped, but the honey hunters' oral tradition has allowed it continue, so that even if the birds can no longer make it themselves, they know what it means? Fascinating to speculate on how this came about.
well these sorts of things should be thought at schools... it's actually quite interesting and *definitely* more useful than creating potato batteries or memorizing all the presidents in order
... i mean... *JUST WHY*
I had seen other videos of people following the birds but this is the first time I heard of there being a call to let the birds know you want to open a bee hive.
How is this knowledge going to help you in your life
This is cool! Thank you for showing me something new!
Ravens/crows do this with wolves.
Got a video or a link somewhere from you tube?
I keep looking for it, but I lost the original that I got it from. The closest I found to it is one that shows Ravens as scavengers after a wolf pack kills an animal. We all know ravens are very intelligent birds, and there was a documentary that noticed they direct the wolves to where the food is so that they can kill it and let the raven feed on the scraps.
@@bodinian Ravens and crows are the smartest birds around
Beautiful
Wow jus wow the best to be with nature and having your own friend like a movie to gain. How do we normally find hives i always wanted to know where the ol bees that come to my garden produce it xD
Those birds he referred to are called honeyguides. There are videos on TH-cam about them; the symbiosis between tribes and these birds is fascinating.
Simply fascinating.\
That’s so cool
I’m watching this in class rn :)
There must be a Lesser Honey Guide as well?
Honey guide birds are my homies for sure
‘That’s Claire there in the hat’ a white woman stood next to two black men, I kind of already worked that out mate 😂
LOL I literally just wrote exactly the same comment. That's the funniest thing I've seen and heard for a long time.
1:42 Thats Clair there in the hat.
Ya dont say. 😂😂😂
All glory to Allah SWT ❤️
I just came from Joe Rogans podcast , never thought of this😊
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You should see what happens when humans welch on the agreement keeping all the honey for themselves. Bird looks for a really large pride of lions to tell them where they can get their hands on some people.
they do some good after all
Thats amazing but not suprising, the birds know that they get food also so they don't work and get stung to death by the bees if the birds enter the hive so they lead the humans to the hives to do the work for them and the humans don't starve because the birds know where to get food.
Just imagine what trees call these two. Or the bees?
Its funny how with all our technology, we who see ourselves as so smart are nothing but babies to life. Whilst those living in tune with the world seem to be the far more wiser.
Maybe they could help me find fang fang.
It's mutualism
pulling a beehive with your bare hands wow but not being stung once just how
I know this was seven months ago but if you're still interested:
The men smoke the beehive, which either calms the bees down or makes them lethargic depending on my sources. I'd imagine they get stung sometimes, but if you do it regularly, you probably get used to it.
Glory be to Allah ❤
honeyguides also work with honey badgers.
That is a myth. Those videos were staged.
No honey badgers offers them a poor return.. So they just called cancelled on them. Honey badger is fearless he just takes everything with them.
Who's here after watching alien worlds?
Me hahahag i was searching if anyone did the same
Haooy to found you! So what do you think of this? (:
Same x)
@@mokkacappuccino2338 I'm amazed! Haha
0.02 Ashy Larry's great great grandfather in Africa
"That's Claire there in the hat" Sorry I found that amusing, as she stands next to two African Men. In case we weren't sure which of them was Claire.
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That's a call made by the honey hunters when they are deceptively led by a hornetguide.
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They real life Disney princes 👌❤️
That Pooh Shiesty though
Now if I could only find a Taco guide 🤔
Yarrrrrrr!
Us!!!!!
the narrator is Trevor Noah?
'Thats Claire in the hat',, no shyt huh!!!
Nah Claire is the African Man in the T-shirt. Never assume. Claire is a Tribal elder.
Honey hunters go brrr
Zamm! What is yhat song? I'm in love!
how about bee sting? I mean there is no protection on the guys, how they protect themselves? interesting!
that's what I'm wondering!
Hi, that's a fair question. The men smoke out the bees a bit by first burning leaves under the nest to subdude them. Then they just go for it and grab the combs, and don't seem to mind a few stings along the way...
The smoke calms down the bees.
@@hectorcardenas2171 well kind of, their reaction to smoke is to stuff themselves with as much honey as they can incase they have to abandon the hive. This makes them less likely to sting some sources say it's because it makes it harder to bend their bodies to sting others say it's similar to how people and and other animals get sleepy after gorging themselves.
1:43 "That's Claire in the hat". Picture of Claire, who's white, with two black men. One of them in a hat.
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Yea but we can also train dogs to help us hunt meat. Even better!
We have access to many animals in the wild which can give us certain advantages. People say that humans interfering with nature is bad but all that does is stops us coexisting with it.
Bird bros
Aw the bird has a pet ape ❤
how can evolution explain this?
Freud Ba The glory of Yahuah
Very simply
@@sovereignyashub3878 who is that?
Can anyone doubt in a Creator?
Yes, Evolution
I feel if you didnt leave honey for the bird its bad karma.
That is not fair for the bees!!
Bdbdbdbdb! - huh?
Man found money!
Sorry but that hurt my ears with the crickets going on. Unable to go further.
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Hmmmmm, sorry to hear that Razster. We ran the preview video by a few people to make sure it was ok. We'll listen out for this kind of thing in the future, as it is important. Thanks for your feedback.
Razster u got some fucked up ass ears lil one
they should just goto the sto to get hunny
humans saw the honey badgers do it first, they copied them but that doesn't seem to be mentioned. its not hard for the bird to switch species if it see's that it works.
do more research next time.
In this modern era our children so called human beings don't listen and understand us 😂 and they are listen by birds lol
What
Amazing