So today I heard about the amazing cooperation between humans and the honeyguide bird, a bird that has some kind of ancestral understanding that humans will get it bee larvae and beeswax if it leads humans to the hive. In fact humans have a special call that brings in WILD honeyguide birds to lead humans. But this one group of humans double-crosses the birds and doesn't reward them. And Western reporters don't quite accurately portray this. This article covers a lot of ground. And P.S. this is probably why African honeybees get so angry so easily.
https://www.atlasobs...honeyguide-bird
Edited by OhNoNotAgain, May 29 2021 - 7:23 PM.
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Past & Present
Veromessor pergandei, andrei, stoddardi; Novomessor cockerelli
Camponotus fragilis, Camponotus sansabeanus (inactive), vicinus, laevigatus/quercicola, CA02
Pogonomyrmex subnitidus, P. californicus (inactive)
Liometopum occidentale (inactive); Prenolepis imparis; Myrmecocystus mexicanus (inactive); Tetramorium sp. (inactive); Lasius sp.
Termites: Zootermopsis angusticollis, and a box of drywood termites that can't be seen
Isopods: (most no longer keeping) A. gestroi, granulatum, kluugi, maculatum, vulgare; C. murina; P. hoffmannseggi, P. haasi, P. ornatus; V. parvus, P. pruinosus, T. tomentosa
Spoods: (no longer keeping) Phidippus sp., other
