World is losing ‘magical’ tradition of human-animal mutualism, study warns

Gcina Dlamini blows through a whistle fashioned from a piece of dried fruit in the forest near his home in the town of Lavumisa in Eswatini, the Southern African kingdom previously known as Swaziland. The whistle is called ingongolo in siSwati, and Dlamini is using it to summon the inhlava bird, or greater honeyguide (Indicator … Continue reading World is losing ‘magical’ tradition of human-animal mutualism, study warns