The bees and the haystack man

There's an ancient accomplice in the hunt for honey, unreal: he is so small he is almost invisible, but they call him gba-sarà or "he who calls loudly". It's a small bird, an African woodpecker better known to ornithologists as Indicator indicator, a black-throated indicator. He loves honey and bee larvae, but he could never open a beehive by himself. He needs the help of strong brave honey hunters. The small bird has an ally in another animal who is crazy about the sweet liquid: man. The hunting agreement was signed in the Adamewa highlands, a land of forests and savannahs in the heart of Cameroon. The men are gbaya, keepers of the last tropical forests. The little bird will sing to attract the hunters when he perceives them moving through the forest (in February, at the end of the dry season when the beehives are brimming with honey). He will cry out anxiously