“He [the honey badger] has besides, as well the [local peoples], sagacity to follow a small bird, which flies on by degrees with alluring note of ‘cherr, cherr, cherr’, and guides its followers bees’ nest” – from Andrew [Anders] Sparrman’s A Voyage Cape Good Hope, Towards Antarctic Polar Circle, Round World, 1772–1776, Volume II (1785; Perth, Scotland: R Morison Son). For those us born outside ...
