HONEY GUIDE BIRD

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Uploaded by on Jun 9, 2007

Honeyguides are named for a remarkable habit seen in one or two species: they guide humans, and possibly other large mammals (such as the Honey Badger) to bee colonies. Once the mammal opens the hive and takes the honey, the bird feeds on the remaining wax and larvae. This behavior is well studied in the Greater Honeyguide

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  • lol that wildboar coming out of that hole was so unexpected...

  • Documentaries on animals back in those days were notorious for staging encounters. They probably took a zoo-reared honey badger and placed him in confrontations with other zoo-reared animals at an "african" location. The honeyguide footage may have been procured in Africa, but the interaction between the badger and the bird was surely concocted.

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  • FUCK YOU OMGFAGS!

  • The Honeyguide bird behavior is said to be documented even today in parts of Ethiopia and Somalia, where the birds will actively seek humans to guide them to beehives. Assuming the truth of these word-of-mouth statements, it's not impossible that the Honeyguide bird will seek out animals known to eat honey.

  • This old video is such a load of crap. So sterilized, scripted and edited to be cute and "family safe". It's like watching a Disney movie. I bet it IS a Disney movie.

  • The 'bird" is so obviously fake, especially at 2:11

  • the honey badger doesn't give a sh*t that his parents left him!

  • @stablematter And the bird, for most of it, is a model on a string :)

  • ラーテルってリアクションがいちいち面白い動物だよなぁw

    向こう見ずにもほどがあるというか、脳筋すぎるというかw

  • this is a portion of the movie 'The Gods Must Be Crazy' so very little can be regarded as fact considering it was done on a movie set

  • Honey badger dont give a shit.

  • Humans evolved from apes, Chuck Norris evolved from Honey Badger.

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