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is BBSRC David Phillips Research Fellow and Hans Gadow Lecturer at the University of Cambridge and a Professor at the at the University of Cape Town where she studies the evolution, ecology and conservation of species interactions, and works mainly on African birds.

She has collaborated with the  in Mozambique’s to study the remarkable mutualism between human honey-hunters and greater honeyguides that lead them to wild bees’ nests. She also studies co-evolutionary arms races between brood-parasitic birds such as the honeyguides, cuckoos and parasitic finches and the host species they exploit to bear the costs of raising their young.

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Lazaro Hamusikili is a legendary bird man from Choma in southern Zambia. He has 40 years of knowledge of Zambian birds and their breeding ecology, especially brood parasites such as honeyguides and cuckoos, and is a champion nest-finder, honey-hunter, and preparator of museum skins.

Picture: Dr Claire Spottiswoode

Orlando Yassene is an expert honey-hunter from Mbamba village in the in northern Mozambique. Orlando has followed honeyguides to bees’ nests since he was a teenager and has a deep knowledge of the Niassa environment. He currently helps with conservation monitoring for the , and is the leader of the Mbamba village dance troupe.

Picture: Dr Claire Spottiswoode

is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Yale. Since 2004, he has been carrying out research with Hadza foragers of northern Tanzania. His research focuses on understanding how people solve basic social and economic problems that arise from life as a hunter-gatherer.

His work is grounded in the field of human behavioral ecology, addressing how evolutionary processes and environmental contexts influence human behavior. Topics include how people decide where and with whom to live, how they acquire foods, and how foods are shared.