As a result of this deadly behaviour, we predicted that Little Bee-eaters would be extremely good at mobbing honeyguides lurking near their nests. We also expected that, if exposed to an experimental honeyguide intruder and an experimentally added foreign egg added to their simulating real parasitism, most bee-eaters would reject their eggs and start a new clutch.
This is because Greater Honeyguide females typically puncture all the eggs in a nest before laying their own, so if the bee-eaters could tell they had been parasitized, they would do better to abandon their damaged eggs and start afresh. Little Bee-eater chicks. To test these predictions, we placed stuffed greater honeyguides and Black-collared Barbets Lybius torquatus as controls outside the nesting burrows of Little Bee-eaters, and then sat back and watched how long it would take for the bee-eaters to come home, notice the intruder, and attack.
Little Bee-eater mobbing Greater Honeyguide. We expected the bee-eaters always to mob honeyguides, but not the harmless barbets. Gov't Research Support, U. Gov't, Non-P. Image adapted from: Martin Olsen; CC0. Most of the time, evolution seems to do a pretty good job of turning out animals with adaptations that help them survive and thrive.
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