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This African bird will lead you to honey, if you call to it in just the right way

A male Greater Honeyguide in Mozambique's Niassa Special Reserve. (Claire Spottiswoode)

A wild African bird that will famously lead people to trees filled with honeycomb seems to somehow learn the distinct whistles and calls of the human foragers who live near them.

Scientists have long puzzled over this unusual cooperative relationship between humans and a wild animal. This bird species, the Greater Honeyguide, is not domesticated at all, and no one trains them.

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