"The honeyguide bird loves beeswax, but needs help breaking open bees’ nests to get it. So it shows a honey badger the way to the nest, who rips it open and together they share the rewards. Or so the story goes".

#honeyguide #bird #bees #wax #badgers
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/993850

Ever heard of #honeyguide birds? They are wild birds but work together with #honey hunters.
How?
Well, depends on where you are. Jessica van der Wal and a pan-African collaborative of early career researchers are mapping this cooperation between humans and wild birds across Africa.

Honeyguides eat wax, and humans eat honey. So they collaborate: the bird guides the honey-hunter to a bees' nest, the honey-hunter harvests it and the bird gets the wax left behind: a #mutualism.