Honeyguides on BBC2

Dec 15, 2015

Our Greater Honeyguides killing their Little Bee-eater hosts star in the ‘Sex, Lies and Dirty Tricks’ episode of BBC Natural History Unit’s “World’s Sneakiest Animals” TV series, presented by Chris Packham. The first broadcast is at 20h00 on 14 January 2015, on BBC Two. The Natural History Unit team visited us in Zambia in October 2014 to film, ably facilitated in the field by Jeroen Koorevaar and Nicholas Horrocks.

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