A honey badger eating beeswax Dominic Cram
Many animals in southern Africa feed on beeswax and, by doing so, they help maintain a unique partnership between humans and birds that lead honey-hunters to wild bees’ nests.
Until now, it was thought that very few animals apart from greater honeyguides (Indicator indicator) could digest beeswax – a high-energy food that the birds obtain as a reward from humans who break open bees’ nests.
at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and his colleagues wanted to see if larger animals feeding on the wax from bees’ nests would undermine…
