African Honeyguides

Research on a remarkable
human-animal relationship

Laltaika successfully completes his fieldwork

Laltaika successfully completes his fieldwork

Eliupendo Laltaika is back in Moshi after successfully completing his Masters fieldwork in northern Tanzania, studying the human-honeyguide mutualism across four honey-hunting cultures (the Maasai, Ndorobo, Hadzabe and Sonjo people). Laltaika overcame many logistical...
Honeyguide fieldwork in South Africa

Honeyguide fieldwork in South Africa

Claire and Jessica, together with colleagues Dr Chima Nwaogu and Dr Gabriel Jamie, carried out pilot fieldwork at Honeywood Farm alongside Grootvadersbosch Forest in the southern Cape, South Africa. We were delighted to catch several greater and lesser honeyguides and...
Honeyguides at the ASAB Winter Meeting

Honeyguides at the ASAB Winter Meeting

Dom Cram and Jessica van der Wal shared their latest honeyguide research in two presentations at the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB) Virtual Winter Meeting.  Dom’s talk was entitled “Produce or scrounge? Correlates and consequences of cooperating...