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Ornithologist Herbert. Friedman opened the first secret. He visits some parts of Africa, and found the Master honey hunting in the woods when not actively look for cellular straight. Honey in the hunt, the hunters were always the first into the forest, listening. Soon, a bird flying out of the jungle and crying loudly, his head hovering in the Hunter. This is a harsh call, body-color gray-green, the body seems to swallow a large bird. Honey hunting natives saw it with pleasure. While birds circling his head after the hunter, "grumble, grumble," cried and flew to the depths of the forest. Native bird then trot to keep up. The birds seem to be guide specifically for the natives, which from time to time to stop, call and a guide to keep up with their own natives. Sometimes, it will fly before the natives hesitate circling overhead, as if urging the natives up the road. In this way, one bird with the natives to walk two kilometers, you stop the call and began to fly silently in the forest with a small circle. The bird on a tree after a few laps. At this time, if the natives did not respond, the bird will then fly. After a few laps to fly, the bird population will fall from the tree the original. Eventually, the natives understand the meaning of the birds, he began searching in the trees. At this time, natives often will soon find a bee hive. Honey was thus found. A hive of honey about 7 kg, enough for natives to enjoy three or four days, when the end of honey hunting, the natives will not forget the birds of the wizard, he would leave some honey found to express thanks to the birds.
Friedman found that the birds have the remarkable ability is the sound wizard honey woodpecker. In fact, people have long known that honey woodpecker of the guide ring skills. However, Friedman Previously, people only know the sound honey honey badger will lead the way woodpecker. About the size of wild boar with the honey badger, the mouth end of a long kiss. They are very strong legs and claws, in the secondary tropical forest to feed on bees, honey woodpecker is also preferable ring honey bee eggs and so on, but their mouth is very short, claw-developed, not suitable for feed in the hive.
However, the sound is very good at finding honey woodpecker nest. Whenever a ring found a hive when the honey woodpecker. It will be issued shrill screams, while flying through the forest. Once the woodpecker in flight that affect honey honey badger honey badger it down to peck at the head, then began to catch up with the honey badger honey woodpecker ring. In this way, affect the honey badger honey woodpecker diverted to the cellular front, it is perched on a branch observing honey badger destroyed hive. Soon, honey honey badger to drink enough and eat enough bee eggs left. At this time the destruction of bees looked for homes to escape, the ring under the tree on the fly honey woodpecker, the leisurely enjoy the honey. Therefore, the impact to be called honey woodpecker guiding birds. In English, the sound honey woodpecker called honeyguide, means that the honey bird.
African natives may be found very early ring to the honey badger honey woodpecker guide the secret, in the long process of struggle for survival, they were gradually joined the ranks of the boot ring honey woodpecker. In their original culture, sound honey woodpecker is their worship of God. They affect honey woodpecker strict protection. If anyone dares to kill a woodpecker sound honey, he will be amputated ears ranging from heavy to others will be put to death. Some tribes have even rang the behavior of honey woodpecker to Boji fierce. By natural enemies in the ring honey woodpecker attack, earth people will ring out all the stops to help the honey woodpecker hand. This is because the land it is said that if honey woodpecker in the ring stand by when they need help, they will be God's punishment. Honey woodpecker and the impact of this symbiotic relationship between the natives sound as mysterious as a fairy tale, but this relationship indeed exists in nature. The other surprises affect honey woodpecker is that they can enjoy the beeswax, which in nature is very rare. Beeswax is difficult to digest, there is little in nature that it can feed on animals. Early in the 16th century, a missionary to Mozambique has been found that a bird flew into his church regularly, and eating the candles on candlesticks. Ornithologists believe that this bird is loud honey woodpecker. However, how digestion affected honey woodpecker beeswax are difficult to digest it? This is the ornithologists still can not figure out the problem.
Thus, the ring honey woodpecker's "legend" did not end. Ornithologists in-depth study of the behavior of these birds, has a new discovery: honey woodpecker with influence, like the cuckoo, is a parasitic bird nest! However, most cuckoo eagle by their appearance as the main scare away the nest, and then take the opportunity to lay their eggs in someone else's nest. The sound is quiet honey woodpecker nest until the main foraging only when the others got into the nest secretly go to lay eggs. In general, sound honey woodpecker prefer it to be a close relative of woodpecker, woodpeckers, etc. for its future generations, "meaning the pro." Sometimes it also got into the nest of brown birds lay eggs. Honey woodpecker eggs affected the typical "pro-justice" as early as hatching eggs. Honey woodpecker chicks hatched abnormal sound cruel, it's mouth on the students with a pair of small hooks. Until the time, "Yi Xiong," "meaning girl," has just hatched, it has a small hook with a mouth them to death. Of course. "Pro-justice" Why does not understand their children die, it will soon put the dead took out a nest, in turn, affect more really love honey woodpecker. Honey woodpecker small ring about 10 days after birth, its mouth and a small hook fell off on its own. In the "pro-justice," the well-fed, the small woodpecker ring honey grow up very quickly, full-fledged after they leave the nest away. Interestingly, the nascent ring honey woodpecker with its parent, with the honey to the honey badger or hunting ability natives as guides, but they have not been training for parents. The instinct of generations is how to get it? Remains a mystery.
According to the research, sound honey woodpecker mainly in Africa. It also has 11 other similar, widely distributed in Africa, Malaya and Suri Mandan and other regions, but there are not 8 as "Wizard" skills. Ornithologists of these interesting birds are more in-depth research. |