Which birds help people look for honey and why? Detailed answer

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Which birds help people look for honey and why?

Birds from the family of honeyguides love to feast on beeswax, but they are not able to penetrate the hive themselves. Instead, they look for humans or other mammals that eat honey, fly up to them and, in a peculiar behavior, ask to follow them, eventually leading to bees. After opening the hive, when a person takes the honey, these birds get access to the wax.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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In 597-595 BC, a terrible threat of Scythian invasion loomed over Babylonia.

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Having lost their leadership, the Scythians suffered a severe defeat and fled behind the mountain ranges of the Caucasus to their native steppes of the Black Sea region.

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