Editing Greater honeyguide (section)

=== Possible guiding of animals ===
{{multiple image |direction=vertical |align=right |image1=Indicator indicator 1838, crop.jpg |caption1=Adult male illustrated by [[Nicolas Huet the Younger|Nicolas Huet]] |image2=Indicator indicator, 2023-05-20 07h07, 26s gidsroep te Kamp Rynoue naby Pretoria, a.mp3 |caption2=Guiding call near [[Pretoria]], South Africa}}
Many sources say that this species also guides [[honey badger]]s.<ref>{{cite book |author=Attenborough, D. |year=1998 |title=The Life of Birds |url= https://archive.org/details/lifeofbirds0000atte |url-access=registration |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-01633-7 |author-link=David Attenborough}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Estes, R. D. |year=1999 |title=The Safari Companion: A Guide to Watching African Mammals |publisher=Chelsea Green |pages=361–362 |isbn=978-1-890132-44-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xqp7poFviNcC}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author1=Zimmerman, D. A. |author2=Turner, D. A. |author3=Pearson, D. J. |name-list-style=amp |year=1999 |title=Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania |publisher=Princeton University Press |page=406 |isbn=978-0-691-01022-9}}</ref> [[Anders Sparrman|Sparrman]] noted in the 18th century that indigenous Africans reported this interaction, but Friedmann adds that no biologist has seen it. Friedmann quotes reports that greater honeyguides guide [[baboon]]s and speculates that the behavior [[evolution|evolved]] in relation to these species before the appearance of humanity.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Dean, W. R. J. |author2=MacDonald, I. A. W. | title=A review of African birds feeding in association with mammals |journal=Ostrich |volume=52 |issue=3 |year=1981 |pages=135–155 |doi=10.1080/00306525.1981.9633599|bibcode=1981Ostri..52..135D}}</ref> However, they state,

<blockquote>In addition to that listed by Friedmann (1955:41-47), the only recent record is of a greater honeyguide giving its guiding call to baboons at Wankie Game Reserve, Zimbabwe (C. J. Vernon, pers. comm.). However, Vernon did not see a positive response by the baboons to the honeyguide. No additional records of honeyguides and ratels have been reported since Friedmann (1955) and the first-hand accounts given in his review in support of this association are all of incomplete guiding sequences. No biologist has ever reported this association.</blockquote>

Honeyguides are thought to guide other animals, a behavior that may have evolved with "early human". Later studies estimate that interaction between honeyguides and honey badgers likely occurs, "but is highly localized or extremely difficult to observe, or both".<ref>{{cite journal|author1=Van der Wal, J. E. M. |author2=Afan, A. I.|author3=Anyawire, M. |author4=Begg, C. M.|author5=Begg, K. S.|author6=Dabo, G. A.|author7=Gedi, I. I.|author8=Harris, J. A.|author9=Isack, H. A. |author10=Ibrahim, J. I.|author11=Jamie, G. A.|author12=Kamboe, W.-B. W.|author13=Kilawi, A. O.|author14=Kingston, A.|author15=Laltaika, E. A. |author16=Lloyd-Jones, D. J.|author17=M'manga, G. M.|author18=Muhammad, N. Z.|author19=Ngcamphalala, C. A.|author20=Nhlabatsi, S. O. |author21=Oleleteyo, T. T. |author22=Sanda, M.|author23=Tsamkxao, L.|author24=Wood, B. M.|author25=Spottiswoode, C. N.|author26=Cram, D. L. |title=Do honey badgers and greater honeyguide birds cooperate to access bees' nests? Ecological evidence and honey-hunter accounts |journal=Journal of Zoology |volume=321|issue=1|year=2023 |pages=22–32 |doi=10.1111/jzo.13093 |doi-access=free|url=https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstreams/30809086-febc-475c-aad2-6db6184213ab/download}}</ref> It has also been acknowledged that bee colonies are seasonally very common in Africa and ratels probably have no trouble finding them.<ref>{{cite book |author1=Short, L. |author2=Horne, J. |author2-link=Jennifer F. M. Horne |name-list-style=amp |title=Toucans, Barbets and Honeyguides |pages=473–480 |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-19-854666-5}}</ref>

Another argument against guiding of non-human animals is that near cities, where Africans increasingly buy [[sugar]] rather than hunting for wild honey, guiding behavior is disappearing. Ultimately, it may disappear everywhere.<ref name=ShortHorneDiamond2003 />