by Susan Miller | Feb 7, 2025
Lailat Guta and Jessica van der Wal returned to the Niassa Special Reserve, to visit our long-term collaborators in the Mbamba honey-hunting community and at Mariri Environmental Centre. As part of Lailat’s MSc research on the relationship between honey-hunting and...
by Susan Miller | Feb 2, 2025
Our new study quantifies what honeyguides contribute to honey-hunters in the Reserva Especial do Niassa in northern Moçambique. In collaboration with Celestino Dauda, Horácio Murico, Colleen Begg, Keith Begg and Agostinho Jorge of the Niassa Carnivore Project, we...
by Susan Miller | Feb 16, 2024
The Honey-hunting Research Network (coordinated by Jessica van der Wal) met in Cape Town for a very enjoyable week of analysing and comparing interview data from honey-hunting cultures across Africa, painting a picture of the human cultural variation relevant to...
by Susan Miller | Dec 8, 2023
A new study from the Honeyguide Research Project shows that Greater Honeyguides learn the distinct calls that honey-hunters in different parts of Africa use to communicate with them, facilitating cooperation between species. Greater Honeyguides are wax-eating African...
by Susan Miller | Nov 9, 2023
Our new paper investigating foraging strategies in greater honeyguides is out now, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. After guiding a honey-hunter to a bees’ nest, the honeyguide is gratefully rewarded with a piece of beeswax, which it eats. There is...
by Susan Miller | Oct 31, 2023
Claire Spottiswoode gave a plenary talk entitled “Show me the honey: communication between people and wild birds in Africa” at the International Bioacoustics Conference in Sapporo, Japan. Many thanks to Dr Masayo Soma for this wonderful opportunity to share our team’s...
