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In pencil, chalks, and charcoal, a detailed sketch of a young Yao man cupping his hands around his mouth to whistle for a small Greater Honeyguide bird (Indicator indicator) perched high in a mostly bare tree; the young man is dressed in a black t-shirt and mid-calf cargo pants, rumpled socks over hightop black sneakers; at his feet are two buckets and a carved handle pickax for opening a bee hive hollow. The young man is in the left foreground, the tree with the honeyguide is right middle ground and the distant background is a dry wooded savanna landscape with spindly trees and a distant African buffalo silhouette; dusty savanna atmosphere, warm earth tones punctuated with vivid greens in sparse leaves, intricate textures, slightly impressionistic style, cultural storytelling of the wildlife connection of collaborative bee scouting, sun-kissed Mozambique landscape, captivating narrative
The Yao of Mozambique and the Greater Honeyguide, (Indicator indicator), share the bounty they work together to acquire. It begins with a whistle call and the birds lead the honey hunter to the hollow tree where the bees have built their hive. The human pulls down and opens up the hollow tree or branch and together they gather the bounty of honey for the Yao and a feast of larvae for the honeyguide.
You can read more about it here (warning, the honeyguide is a nest parasite, so the article's beginning is a bit dark).
https://www.audubon.org/magazine/meet-greater-honeyguide-bird-understands-humans
