The research published on December 8, 2023, from the University of Cambridge, unveils a unique collaboration between humans and animals in the Niassa National Reserve in Mozambique, Africa. This interaction, involving free-living wild animals and humans, has evolved through natural selection over hundreds of thousands of years. In various parts of Africa, honey hunters use special calls to communicate with honeyguides, birds that eat wax. Researchers discovered that honeyguide birds differentiate between the calls of honey hunters in Tanzania and Mozambique, responding more to local calls than foreign ones. Dr. Claire Spottiswoode, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Cambridge‘s … Continue reading Mozambique’s Honeyguides: Deciphering Nature’s Code in Human-Bird Communication