This is a story about the bird's 60-second science. I'm Sarah Chodash.

This is a story about the birds and the bees.

When the Jawa people of Mozambique want to find beehives full of honey, they make this noise.

That sound attracts the attention of what are appropriately called honey guide birds.

If you ask as a while honey hunter, why they go,

brh, when they're looking for honey guide,

they'll tell you, well, it's the best way to attract a honey guide

and to maintain its attention while you're following it to a beesnest.

Claire Spottiswood of the University of Cambridge in England and the University of Cape Town in South Africa.

The Joois have long known that they could attract honey guides vocally, as part of a rare example of a

mutualistic relationship between people and wild animals.

The humans get honey, and the birds then get what they want, the previously unattainable wax of the beehive, which they consider a delicacy.

Spottiswood study provides evidence that the humans are actually communicating with the birds.

We wanted to specifically test whether Honey Guides responded to the exact information

content of the Britain of New Corps, which signals, if you wish, I'm looking for bees nests.

So we wanted to distinguish that from the alternative.

The call simply alerts honey guides to the presence of humans.

Which the research team did.

Birds were much more likely to respond to

brrh-h respond to to other sounds, the studies in the journal Science.

Honey guides may help people, but to other birds, they can be monsters.

Honey guides are the real jackal and hide of the bird world.

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