Malice or memory lapse? Why honeyguides sometimes lead hunters to danger

Malice or memory lapse? Why honeyguides sometimes lead hunters to danger

Researchers may have finally cracked the centuries-old mystery of why African honeyguide birds sometimes lead human honey-hunters to dangerous animals instead of bees: they could just be recall errors. Honeyguides (Indicator indicator) are famed for guiding honey-hunters to wild bees’ nests in exchange for rewards of beeswax. But since the 1600s, Indigenous accounts have described […]