by Susan Miller | Jun 29, 2023
Out today in the Journal of Zoology: our new collaborative paper on the potential cooperation between honey badgers and honeyguides. Such a partnership may have implications for the origins of our own species’ cooperation with honeyguides and for the ecology and...
by Susan Miller | Jun 22, 2023
Fatima Balasani (pictured with a male honeyguide briefly captured), Carvalho Issa Nanguar, David Lloyd-Jones, Jess Lund, Seliano Rucunua and Claire Spottiswoode have just completed a very successful period of fieldwork together in the Niassa Special Reserve,...
by David Lloyd-Jones | Mar 30, 2023
David Lloyd-Jones recently gave a talk on what honeyguides and honey-hunters have taught us about Niassa’s wild honeybee ecology at the Apimondia Africa Regional Symposium held in Durban. He was honoured to pay further tribute to Ricardo Guta and his contribution to...
by Claire Spottiswoode | Dec 9, 2022
Ricardo Guta, our dear colleague and friend in our research team, tragically died on 1 December 2022 following a swimming accident in the Cape mountains. All our thoughts are with his wife, Lailat, and their children Adrielle and Piotr. Ricardo’s life was honoured by...
by Claire Spottiswoode | Dec 1, 2022
We are delighted to have a new paper on wax-eating behaviour by honeyguides and other animals published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. In this study we used camera traps to investigate which animals, other than honeyguides, fed on wax made available from the...
by David Lloyd-Jones | Aug 5, 2022
Jessica van der Wal was awarded a grant from the Cultural Evolution Society Transformation Fund for her project entitled ‘Cultural mosaic of human-honeyguide mutualism’. This will allow her to grow the pan-African collaborative to document Africa’s remaining diversity...
