Q 01/05

Which literary pair did a researcher liken the greater honeyguide to, for helping people yet killing its nestmates?

A) Jekyll and Hyde

B) Holmes and Moriarty

C) Romeo and Juliet

D) Faust and Mephisto

Answer · why

A) Jekyll and Hyde

Jekyll and Hyde was the comparison, because the same bird that shares the spoils of a hive with people hatches in a stolen nest and kills its foster s...

Q 02/05

In 1588 a missionary saw a small bird, now known as a honeyguide, slip into his church to nibble what?

A) Hymn books

B) Candles

C) Altar bread

D) Altar cloths

Answer · why

B) Candles

Candles made of beeswax drew the bird in, and the missionary went on to write the first known account of it leading men to bees' nests.

Q 03/05

Besides honeyguides, which sea mammals are known to help people find food, by driving mullet into fishermen's nets?

A) Sea otters

B) Seals

C) Dolphins

D) Manatees

Answer · why

C) Dolphins

Dolphins in Brazil herd fish toward waiting fishermen and catch more for themselves, the one partnership researchers call comparable to the honeyguide...

Q 04/05

Why do Hadza honey-hunters often burn, bury or hide the leftover wax instead of leaving it for the honeyguide?

A) To calm the bees

B) To hide from rivals

C) To honour ancestors

D) To keep it hungry

Answer · why

D) To keep it hungry

To keep it hungry is the aim, since a bird that has not eaten is more likely to guide again, yet the partnership still supplies about a tenth of the H...

Q 05/05

The honey badger, long said to follow honeyguides to hives, is also known by which other name?

A) Zorilla

B) Ratel

C) Aardwolf

D) Meerkat

Answer · why

B) Ratel

Ratel is the honey badger's other name. Legends of it following the bird go back centuries, but no biologist has seen it happen, and footage of the pa...