Cooperation between humans and wild animals is vanishingly rare. Yet for at least as long as we’ve been human, African birds called greater honeyguides have led people to honey, and so exchanged information for skills. Honeyguides know where bees’ nests are located and eat beeswax, whereas human honey-hunters are able to subdue the bees and open the nest, exposing wax for the honeyguides and honey for the humans. In this talk, I’ll share some of our work in collaboration with honey-hunting communities in Mozambique and elsewhere in Africa, asking how this remarkable partnership functions, and what it can teach us about communication and the coevolution of cultures across species boundaries.