putting the j in jjosh

There were a bunch of interviews done with the people who film and produce all the BBC natural history stuff, and I’m going through the transcripts to find bits…lots of highlights there too, but this one stands out:

There’s another wonderful story in East Africa of a tribe of people, the Akumba, who have learned how to collaborate with a bird in order to get honey. [11:06:58:03]  Now, this is a bird that will lead them to honey.  Um, the, the people can’t smell the honey, the bird can.  But the bird cannot access the honey because it’s only this very small size.  The people can access the honey.  So the bird will sing a song and lead these people to the honey, to a, to a hive.  And then the bird waits patiently while the people get the honey out of the hive, and the people have learned that if they give the bird a little bit of honey, that the bird will do it again.  So that’s an amazing relationship between man and nature.