honeyguide
- a variation of honey guide.
Example Sentences
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But in a rare and millennia-old collaboration, honey hunters in Africa get help finding bees’ nests from a small brown bird called the greater honeyguide.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 17, 2024
Conversely, the guttural trill-grunt signal the Yao use to communicate with the honeyguide can help scare off animals they find dangerous.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 7, 2023
An example is seen in the yellow-rumped honeyguide, a bird whose males defend beehives because the females feed on their wax.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
To make the case, he cites the behavior of an African bird called the honeyguide, which leads people to beehives with a series of calls, then shares in whatever honeycomb is extracted.
From New York Times ● May 18, 2017
But the honeyguide flew over his head and sang, ‘Leave it, O hunter. Better things are ahead.’
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
