True to its name, the honey guide, with its distinctive cry, will lead a ratel, a badgerlike member of the weasel family, to a tree containing a beehive.
Šis putns pilnībā attaisno savu nosaukumu, jo tā raksturīgie saucieni atvilina pie bišu koka medusāpsi — sermuļu dzimtas plēsēju.