Amazing Rainforest Animals

Greater Honey guide


	The Greater Honeyguide by Jo-Ann.Hardeman I dreamed I was a little white tailfeathered greater honey guide Flying in the amazon rain forest Leading Pygmies to beehives in the trees Rapidly

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The honey guide or black-throated indicator bird, guides animals, like the honey badger, and people, like the pygmies,to bees' nests. Once there, the humans break open the nest and take out the honey. The bird eats the beeswax! It has intestinal bacteria which break down the substance.
The greater honey guide is a brood parasite. It lays its egg in the nest of another bird after breaking the host's eggs!
This bird is found in Africa and in the rainforests of South America. It is related to the woodpecker and the toucan.