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hunter-gatherers, and the bird assistance has been shown to increase honey-hunters' rates of finding bee colonies by 560%, and led men to significantly higher yielding nests than those found without honeyguides. Contrary to most depictions of the human-honeyguide relationship, the Hadza did not
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actively repay honeyguides, but instead, hid, buried, and burned honeycomb, with the intent of keeping the bird hungry and thus more likely to guide again. Some experts believe that honeyguide co-evolution with humans goes back to the stone-tool making human ancestor
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Most honeyguides are dull-colored, though some have bright yellow coloring in the plumage. All have light outer tail feathers, which are white in all the
African species. The smallest species by body mass appears to be the
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African honeyguide birds are known to lay their eggs in underground nests of other bee-eating bird species. The honeyguide chicks kill the hatchlings of the host using their needle-sharp beaks just after hatching, much as
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hatchlings do. The honeyguide mother ensures her chick hatches first by internally incubating the egg for an extra day before laying it, so that it has a head start in development compared to the hosts' offspring.
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relationship between the honeyguides and the eight other families that make up the order
Piciformes is shown in the cladogram below. The number of species in each family is taken from the list maintained by
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Indicatoridae were noted for their barbet-like structure and brood-parasitic behavior and morphologically considered unique among the non-passerines in having nine primaries. The
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Although most members of the family are not known to recruit "followers" in their quest for wax, they are also referred to as "honeyguides" by linguistic extrapolation.
953:, version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA.
940:, version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA.
664:, while others disagree. Wild honeyguides understand various types of human calls that attract them to engage in the foraging mutualism. In northern
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Dean, W. R. J.; Siegfried, W. Roy; MacDonald, I. A. W. (1 March 1990). "The
Fallacy, Fact, and Fate of Guiding Behavior in the Greater Honeyguide".
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in a nest of another species, laying eggs in series of about five during a period of 5β7 days. Most favor hole-nesting species, often the related
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782:"Do honey badgers and greater honeyguide birds cooperate to access bees' nests? Ecological evidence and honey-hunter accounts"
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Kuhl, H.; Frankl-Vilches, C.; Bakker, A.; Mayr, G.; Nikolaus, G.; Boerno, S.T.; Klages, S.; Timmermann, B.; Gahr, M. (2021).
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million years ago. Despite popular belief, no evidence indicates that honeyguides guide the
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Wood, Brian M.; Pontzer, Herman; Raichlen, David A.; Marlowe, Frank W. (2014-11-01).
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in most species, and presumably the waxy secretions of
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They are among the few birds that feed regularly on
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1162:Short, Lester L. (1991). Forshaw, Joseph (ed.).
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936:Short, L.L. and J. F. M. Horne (2020).
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1141:"Lies, damned lies, and honey badgers"
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262:and David Donsker on behalf of the
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1189:"Underground chick-killers filmed"
1126:10.1111/j.1523-1739.1990.tb00272.x
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963:Dunning, John B. Jr., ed. (2008).
913:"IOC World Bird List Version 14.1"
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1187:Davies, Ella (7 September 2011).
1091:Honey and fire in human evolution
965:CRC Handbook of Avian Body Masses
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861:Stiller, J.; et al. (2024).
586:, at 19.5 cm (7.7 in).
445:β New World barbets (15 species)
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1228:Toucans, Barbets and Honeyguides
1093:. Oxbow Books. pp. 149β167.
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1164:Encyclopaedia of Animals: Birds
1139:Yong, Ed (September 19, 2011).
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824:Molecular Biology and Evolution
562:juvenile fed by host parent, a
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1056:Evolution and Human Behavior
637:mixed-species feeding flocks
367:β woodpeckers (240 species)
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1230:. Oxford University Press.
1205:Friedmann, Herbert (1955).
967:(2nd ed.). CRC Press.
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484:β toucans (43 species)
837:10.1093/molbev/msaa191
807:. Hamlyn. p. 186.
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1590:Great spotted cuckoo
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1106:Conservation Biology
619:. They also feed on
1281:Scientific American
1222:Short, Lester, and
1118:1990ConBi...4...99D
1008:2016Sci...353..387S
761:List of honeyguides
625:Galleria mellonella
576:Cassin's honeyguide
260:Pamela C. Rasmussen
1860:Vespula infernalis
1823:Cuckoo paper wasps
1807:Ammophila sabulosa
1773:Bombus (Psithyrus)
1623:Greater honeyguide
1406:(American barbets)
907:; Donsker, David;
786:Journal of Zoology
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1237:978-0-19-854666-5
1173:978-1-85391-186-6
1002:(6297): 387β389.
974:978-1-4200-6444-5
909:Rasmussen, Pamela
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