by Susan Miller | Jan 22, 2026
We have published a new study in People and Nature showing that people in northern Mozambique use regionally distinct “dialects” when communicating with honeyguides. Led by Jessica van der Wal, the paper shows that human–honeyguide communication varies across...
by Susan Miller | Dec 4, 2025
We are pleased to share our new paper on honey-hunting with honeyguides, in western Africa this time. Led by Wiro-Bless Kamboe as part of his MSc project, and co-authored with Claire Spottiswoode and Timothy Khan Aikins, with Jessica van der Wal as senior author, the...
by Susan Miller | Sep 9, 2025
Dr David Lloyd-Jones graduated with his PhD from the University of Cape Town, entitled “Cooperation, ecology and behaviour in the honeyguide-human mutualism” – congratulations, David, on this wonderful outcome of many happy years of fieldwork in the Niassa Special...
by Susan Miller | Aug 13, 2025
We have a new paper out in Proceedings of the Royal Society B describing human-honeyguide mutualism across the Kingdom of Eswatini. Led by Sanele Nhlabatsi and Jessica van der Wal, and co-authored by Celiwe Ngcamphala and Swati honey-hunter Gcina Dlamini, our study...
by Susan Miller | May 7, 2025
On 29 April 2025, armed insurgents attacked the Mariri Environmental Centre in Mozambique’s Niassa Special Reserve, resulting in the tragic loss of two anti-poaching scouts, Domingos Daude and Fernando Paolo Wirsone (please see statement from the Niassa Carnivore...
