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The Honey Ants Dream. An Aborigine child shows us a honeypot ant. Northern Territory, Australia
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© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
The Honey Ants Dream. An Aborigine child shows us a honeypot ant. Northern Territory, Australia
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The Honey Ants Dream. Night falls over the MacDonnel Ranges, the mountain chain in the center of Australia. The highest altitude of this 350 million
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© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
The Honey Ants Dream. Night falls over the MacDonnel Ranges, the mountain chain in the center of Australia. The highest altitude of this 350 million year old mountain range is 1,531 meters. The range, situated in the center of the central desert, stretches from east to west. The plains and plateaus that surround it are the preferred habitats for the acacia aneura, called mulga, which reaches a height of 15 meters. This tree grows abundantly in the arid zones in the center of Australia. It can survive with only 50mm of rain per year. Northern Territory, Australia
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The Honey Ants Dream. A honeypot ant in the mouth of an Aborigine child regurgitates a drop of honeydew. Northern Territory, Australia
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© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
The Honey Ants Dream. A honeypot ant in the mouth of an Aborigine child regurgitates a drop of honeydew. Northern Territory, Australia
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The Honey Ants Dream. The worker ants clean the honeypots and with their antenna scratch the neck of the replete. At the end of the cleaning, the
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
The Honey Ants Dream. The worker ants clean the honeypots and with their antenna scratch the neck of the replete. At the end of the cleaning, the repletes open their mandibles to provide access to a sort of stopper inside their mouths and a drop of nectar comes out to feed the worker ant. Northern Territory, Australia
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The Honey Ants Dream. Since the time of the first contact, in the fifties or sixties around Alice Springs, the Aborigines' diet has undergone a
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© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
The Honey Ants Dream. Since the time of the first contact, in the fifties or sixties around Alice Springs, the Aborigines' diet has undergone a complete change. Within one generation they went from a 70% plant-based diet, with just some lean meats and practically no sugar, to a 90% industrial diet rich in sugar and fat. Diabetes, high cholesterol, kidney and liver cancer affect a great number of the Aborigines in the northern territories. Northern Territory, Australia
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The Honey Ants Dream. Audrey Martin, as we were harvesting the honey ants' nest, threw her burrowing stick at a lizard. The scene played out in a few
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
The Honey Ants Dream. Audrey Martin, as we were harvesting the honey ants' nest, threw her burrowing stick at a lizard. The scene played out in a few seconds despite the outside temperature of 40°. This 59-year-old Aborigine woman threw the stick and began digging up a rabbit hole where the reptile went to hide, triumphantly dragging the lizard out and finishing it off. Northern Territory, Australia
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The Honey Ants Dream. In the honeypot ants' chambers. The repletes cling to the vertical walls as well as the ceiling of the storage chamber with
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
The Honey Ants Dream. In the honeypot ants' chambers. The repletes cling to the vertical walls as well as the ceiling of the storage chamber with their front legs. They are visited by the worker ants who caress their antennas and head to receive a drop of the precious honeydew. Northern Territory, Australia
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The Honey Ants Dream. 14 Repletes, the “honey pots”, in the hand of an Aborigine woman. The repletes' chambers are often situated more than a meter
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© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
The Honey Ants Dream. 14 Repletes, the “honey pots”, in the hand of an Aborigine woman. The repletes' chambers are often situated more than a meter deep and the only way of finding them is to locate the Melophotus bogati ants' discreet entrances at the foot of the mulga trees and then dig, following the tunnel which goes down vertically to more than one meter below ground. Northern Territory, Australia
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The Honey Ants Dream. Audrey Martin, a 59-year-old Aborigine woman digging with a burrowing stick, these days made of metal. Once made of acacia
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© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
The Honey Ants Dream. Audrey Martin, a 59-year-old Aborigine woman digging with a burrowing stick, these days made of metal. Once made of acacia aneura wood, this stick was also used as much to dig up honey ants and tubers as to throw at prey such as lizards and other small animals. Northern Territory, Australia
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The Honey Ants Dream. The women and the children participate in this harvest on the plains full of mulga trees. The Aborigines locate the honey ants
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© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
The Honey Ants Dream. The women and the children participate in this harvest on the plains full of mulga trees. The Aborigines locate the honey ants at the foot of the tree by the size and the yellow grooves of the worker ants but also through the discoloration of the ground due to the formic acid with which the ants impregnate their nests and surroundings. The ground thus saturated turns a more orange color. Once the women have found the nest's entrance they dig vertically, following the main tunnel. The honey ants are very placid even if they do have powerful mandibles. Northern Territory, Australia
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The Honey Ants Dream. Honeypot ants hold onto the ceiling of their cave with their legs as their sister workers tend to them. The workers bring food
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© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
The Honey Ants Dream. Honeypot ants hold onto the ceiling of their cave with their legs as their sister workers tend to them. The workers bring food from above ground and use their small mouths and mandibles to clean the distended bodies of the honeypots. Northern Territory, Australia
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The Honey Ants Dream. Honeypot ants hold onto the ceiling of their cave with their legs as their sister workers tend to them. The workers bring food
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
The Honey Ants Dream. Honeypot ants hold onto the ceiling of their cave with their legs as their sister workers tend to them. The workers bring food from above ground and use their small mouths and mandibles to clean the distended bodies of the honeypots. Northern Territory, Australia
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The Honey Ants Dream. The behaviour of these small-brained insects often seems to embody characteristics we wish were more apparent in ourselves,
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© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
The Honey Ants Dream. The behaviour of these small-brained insects often seems to embody characteristics we wish were more apparent in ourselves, such as a selflessness on behalf of the community and the ability to plan ahead in order to replace scarcity with plenty. Of course when times are really hard ants have also been known to eat their offspring – but then no society is perfect. Northern Territory, Australia
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The Honey Ants Dream. A honey ant during a buccal exchange
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© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
The Honey Ants Dream. A honey ant during a buccal exchange through trophallaxis with a honeypot ant. The honey ants are omnivorous ants. The storing of honeydew is indispensable for the colony's survival and its consumption represents 40% of the colony's nourishment. The honeypot ants, “repletes”, are attentively cared for by the worker ants who clean and inspect them. Northern Territory, Australia
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The Honey Ants Dream. A honey ant during a buccal exchange through trophallaxis with a honeypot ant. The honey ants are omnivorous ants. The storing
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
The Honey Ants Dream. A honey ant during a buccal exchange through trophallaxis with a honeypot ant. The honey ants are omnivorous ants. The storing of honeydew is indispensable for the colony's survival and its consumption represents 40% of the colony's nourishment. The honeypot ants, “repletes”, are attentively cared for by the worker ants who clean and inspect them. Northern Territory, Australia
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The Honey Ants Dream. Les travailleuses, nettoient les pots de
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
The Honey Ants Dream. Les travailleuses, nettoient les pots de miel et à l’aide de leurs antennes grattent le cou de la fourmi réservoir. À la fin du nettoyage, les fourmis réservoirs ouvrent leurs mandibules et donnent l’accès à un bouchon à l’intérieur de leur bouche et une goutte de nectar sort de leur bouche pour nourrir les travailleuses. Northern Territory, Australia
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The Honey Ants Dream. Portrait of Audrey Martin, a 59-year-old Aborigine woman. Her mother's generation was the first to have contact with
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
The Honey Ants Dream. Portrait of Audrey Martin, a 59-year-old Aborigine woman. Her mother's generation was the first to have contact with civilization and she still possesses the knowledge of the elders. Traditions are rapidly being lost and acculturation has been accelerating since contact with civilization. Learning about life in the desert had been gradual and depended on the youths' age. The secrets and the know-how were handed down as the person matured. The traditions linked to the boomerang were lost within one generation. Learning about and making the boomerang began when the youths were physically and spiritually ready. The elders have not been able to carry on this tradition. TV, video games, internet intensify acculturation. Northern Territory, Australia
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The Honey Ants Dream. 14 Repletes, the “honey pots”, in the hand of an Aborigine woman. The repletes' chambers are often situated more than a meter
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
The Honey Ants Dream. 14 Repletes, the “honey pots”, in the hand of an Aborigine woman. The repletes' chambers are often situated more than a meter deep and the only way of finding them is to locate the Melophotus bogati ants' discreet entrances at the foot of the mulga trees and then dig, following the tunnel which goes down vertically to more than one meter below ground. Northern Territory, Australia
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The Honey Ants Dream. Aborigine women still sometimes practice this harvest on the plains where the mulga tree grows. The Melophotus bogati ants live
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
The Honey Ants Dream. Aborigine women still sometimes practice this harvest on the plains where the mulga tree grows. The Melophotus bogati ants live in symbiosis with this tree. Northern Territory, Australia
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The Honey Ants Dream. A honeypot ant in the mouth of an Aborigine child. It is a delicacy, surprising in its sweetness and its delicate taste.
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
The Honey Ants Dream. A honeypot ant in the mouth of an Aborigine child. It is a delicacy, surprising in its sweetness and its delicate taste. Northern Territory, Australia
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The Honey Ants Dream. In the honeypot ants' chambers. The repletes cling to the vertical walls as well as the ceiling of the storage chamber with
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
The Honey Ants Dream. In the honeypot ants' chambers. The repletes cling to the vertical walls as well as the ceiling of the storage chamber with their front legs. They are visited by the worker ants who caress their antennas and head to receive a drop of the precious honeydew. Northern Territory, Australia
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The Honey Ants Dream. La nuit tombe sur les monts MacDonnel, la chaîne de montagnes du centre de l’Australie. L’altitude maximum de cette montagne
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
The Honey Ants Dream. La nuit tombe sur les monts MacDonnel, la chaîne de montagnes du centre de l’Australie. L’altitude maximum de cette montagne vieille de 350 millions d’années est de 1 531 mètres. Cette chaîne de montagnes située au centre du désert central s’étend d’est en Ouest. Les plaines et plateaux qui l’entourent sont le lieu de prédilection de l’acacia aneura dit mulga qui atteint 15 mètres de hauteur. Cet arbre est très présent dans les zones arides du centre de l’Australie. Il peut survivre avec seulement 50 mm de précipitation par an. Northern Territory, Australia
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The Honey Ants Dream. Une fourmi pot de miel lors d’un échange buccal par trophallaxie avec une reine vierge de la colonie. Les fourmis à miel font
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© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
The Honey Ants Dream. Une fourmi pot de miel lors d’un échange buccal par trophallaxie avec une reine vierge de la colonie. Les fourmis à miel font partie des fourmis omnivores. Le stockage du miellat est indispensable à la survie de la colonie et sa consommation représente 40 % de l’alimentation de la colonie. Les fourmis réservoirs sont l’objet de toutes les attentions de la part des ouvrières qui les nettoient et inspectent. Northern Territory, Australia
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The Honey Ants Dream. The honeypot ants' chambers can generally be found more than one meter deep. They are connected to one of the entrances to the
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
The Honey Ants Dream. The honeypot ants' chambers can generally be found more than one meter deep. They are connected to one of the entrances to the colony by a vertical tunnel that is dug out by the worker ants in very hard earth. Northern Territory, Australia
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The pygmy canopy honey. Honney hunters and the photographer Eric Tourneret. Sangha, Congo
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© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
The pygmy canopy honey. Honney hunters and the photographer Eric Tourneret. Sangha, Congo
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The pygmy canopy honey. An indigenous village along a forest track. Likouala, Congo
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© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
The pygmy canopy honey. An indigenous village along a forest track. Likouala, Congo
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The pygmy canopy honey. In Pokola, the forest city between the departments of the Sangha and the Likouala, the forest company CIB aids in the
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© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
The pygmy canopy honey. In Pokola, the forest city between the departments of the Sangha and the Likouala, the forest company CIB aids in the development of the native communities and employs the N’Benseles as trailblazers and a school for the young indigenes with a school calendar adapted to the forest activities has been in operation since several years. The school is quite far from the native village and this distance does not facilitate attendance. For the young indigenes who speak French, the survival of their people depends on the education of an elite who will represent and defend them. Likouala, Congo
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The pygmy canopy honey. On the forest track, a group of women come back from the stream after their bath. Lokouala, Congo
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© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
The pygmy canopy honey. On the forest track, a group of women come back from the stream after their bath. Lokouala, Congo
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The pygmy canopy honey. The women catch the basket full of honey, the “pendi” at the moment it is lowered. In general, during the big honey season,
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
The pygmy canopy honey. The women catch the basket full of honey, the “pendi” at the moment it is lowered. In general, during the big honey season, the families are in the forest and the women also participate in the harvests. Likouala, Congo
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The pygmy canopy honey. A honey-hunter prepares the smoker made out of a bundle of sticks stuffed into leaves to create a dense smoke. An exceptional
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
The pygmy canopy honey. A honey-hunter prepares the smoker made out of a bundle of sticks stuffed into leaves to create a dense smoke. An exceptional harvest of several kilos of honey from the trunk of an oil palm. Today, the oil palms are planted around the villages by the Bantu farmers following slash-and-burn and we can also find them near the camps of pygmies who consume them and thus scatter the fruit and seeds in the forest. Likouala, Congo
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The pygmy canopy honey. The basket of honey is lowered with a
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© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
The pygmy canopy honey. The basket of honey is lowered with a liana.Likouala, Congo
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The pygmy canopy honey. In a Marantaceae forest, the honey-hunters climb the lianas to harvest a bees nest that had been located in the night. The
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
The pygmy canopy honey. In a Marantaceae forest, the honey-hunters climb the lianas to harvest a bees nest that had been located in the night. The honey-hunters get up before dawn to inspect the traps but also to be able to locate in the silence the sound of the bees fanning. A branch is cut near the tree to mark their discovery. Likouala, Congo
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The pygmy canopy honey. Meat from the bush in a traditional basket. The men make traps of wood and lianas to trap antelopes and boar. The meat is
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
The pygmy canopy honey. Meat from the bush in a traditional basket. The men make traps of wood and lianas to trap antelopes and boar. The meat is shared at the camp and the surplus sold. The pygmies also hunt with a gun for the Bantu salesmen. The hunt, with a permit, is open legally from May 1 to October 20. The natives are authorized to hunt all year for their needs with traditional means if they do not trade or sell the meat. Meat from the bush can be found in the markets year-round and throughout the country. Sangha, Congo
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The pygmy canopy honey. Meat from the bush in a traditional basket. The men make traps of wood and lianas to trap antelopes and boar. The meat is
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
The pygmy canopy honey. Meat from the bush in a traditional basket. The men make traps of wood and lianas to trap antelopes and boar. The meat is shared at the camp and the surplus sold. The pygmies also hunt with a gun for the Bantu salesmen. The hunt, with a permit, is open legally from May 1 to October 20. The natives are authorized to hunt all year for their needs with traditional means if they do not trade or sell the meat. Meat from the bush can be found in the markets year-round and throughout the country. Likouala, Congo
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The pygmy canopy honey. One, two, three trees are harvested in a day. The honey-hunters devour the honey during the harvest as though to pay
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© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
The pygmy canopy honey. One, two, three trees are harvested in a day. The honey-hunters devour the honey during the harvest as though to pay themselves for the effort expended. At the base of the tree, the honey is shared and the rest is brought back to the camp for the women and children. The brood cell is eaten by the men. It's man's food. Honey is important in the Likouala and for the N’Bensele clan and the big season for honey and larvae is in August and September. Then, everyone is in the forest and and no one is left in the village. Sangha, Congo
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The pygmy canopy honey. In the Masseyle family's hut, comfort is rudimentary. The mat is the only furniture. The fire is always kept lit to keep away
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© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
The pygmy canopy honey. In the Masseyle family's hut, comfort is rudimentary. The mat is the only furniture. The fire is always kept lit to keep away insects. When they travel, the families always transport some embers to be able to quickly light a fire to smoke the bees, set up camp for the night or rapidly treat a snake bite by applying an ember to the wound. Likouala, Congo
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The pygmy canopy honey. A “Bouy”, honeycomb, brought back to the camp in a leaf. Likouala, Congo
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© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
The pygmy canopy honey. A “Bouy”, honeycomb, brought back to the camp in a leaf. Likouala, Congo
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The pygmy canopy honey. A honey-hunter with the “Ndjingo” mushroom he gathered from amongst the buttress roots of the sacred tree of the ancestors.
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© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
The pygmy canopy honey. A honey-hunter with the “Ndjingo” mushroom he gathered from amongst the buttress roots of the sacred tree of the ancestors. Likouala, Congo
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The pygmy canopy honey. In the undergrowth, a fire is lit to prepare the smoker for the bees. In the heart of the forest, when a space is opened to
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© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
The pygmy canopy honey. In the undergrowth, a fire is lit to prepare the smoker for the bees. In the heart of the forest, when a space is opened to the sun, thousands of gnats swarm to the men to enjoy the mineral salts from their perspiration, drawing from their skin some nourishment. Likouala, Congo
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The pygmy canopy honey. A difficult climb for this honey-hunter
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© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
The pygmy canopy honey. A difficult climb for this honey-hunter who, with his basket for gathering the honey, climbs up a liana to reach the fork in a giant of the forest. Likouala, Congo
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The pygmy canopy honey. Following the harvest, the joy of honey.
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© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
The pygmy canopy honey. Following the harvest, the joy of honey. Likouala, Congo
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The pygmy canopy honey. At the camp, the women build the structure of the hut within a few minutes. Then the hut is covered in Marantaceae leaves or
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
The pygmy canopy honey. At the camp, the women build the structure of the hut within a few minutes. Then the hut is covered in Marantaceae leaves or some other leaves found in the immediate surroundings. At the camp, the ground is swept once a day, the fire in the huts keeps away gnats and insects and in the case of ants, red embers are scattered on the ground. Likouala, Congo
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The pygmy canopy honey. Scene at the camp. As opposed to the Bantus amongst whom polygamy is widespread and the extended family plays an essential
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© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
The pygmy canopy honey. Scene at the camp. As opposed to the Bantus amongst whom polygamy is widespread and the extended family plays an essential social role, the family unit is quite close knit amongst the pygmies. At the camp, the couples are very solid and solidary. Before marriage, the youths are very free. In the village, the confrontation with the Bantu destabilizes the family. Alcohol, money and cheating perturb the people of the forest. Likouala, Congo
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The pygmy canopy honey. The stalks of Marantaceae are used for basketry, for making the traditional baskets and mats that will be sold to the Bantus.
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© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
The pygmy canopy honey. The stalks of Marantaceae are used for basketry, for making the traditional baskets and mats that will be sold to the Bantus. Likouala, Congo
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The pygmy canopy honey. The women go into the forest to gather wild yams for the meals, some palm nuts and also Koko leaves, the leaves of a liana
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© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
The pygmy canopy honey. The women go into the forest to gather wild yams for the meals, some palm nuts and also Koko leaves, the leaves of a liana used to prepare a sauce. The Koko leaves are also traded or sold to the Bantu masters who sell them in the market of Pokola, the neighboring city. Likouala, Congo
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The pygmy canopy honey. Surrounded by “Libolis” trees, the camp of Massila groups together 5 huts. The huts are covered in Marantaceae leaves. The
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
The pygmy canopy honey. Surrounded by “Libolis” trees, the camp of Massila groups together 5 huts. The huts are covered in Marantaceae leaves. The opening of forest roads in the last twenty-five years has profoundly changed the N’Bensele's way of life. Their relation with the Bantu masters has been modified; clothing and distilled alcohol has arrived in the camps and the villages. Likouala, Congo
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The pygmy canopy honey. In the evening at the camp, the people talk to the children about the ancestors and their ways of the past. They speak of
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© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
The pygmy canopy honey. In the evening at the camp, the people talk to the children about the ancestors and their ways of the past. They speak of hunting elephants with assegais. The ancestors, the great elephant hunters, are called “Touma” and when a entered the forest, the people had hopes for an exceptional hunt. During the nocturnal ceremonies, the whole camp calls upon the largesse of the god “Comba”. The chants are hunting songs, of enthusiasm and thanks for the hunt or harvest to come. These ceremonies often take place after a good hunt, when the camp shares antelope or boar meat. Likiouala, Congo
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The pygmy canopy honey. The honey basket, “pendi”, is filled with the honey from the harvest. It is lowered from the tree using a rope made of
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© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
The pygmy canopy honey. The honey basket, “pendi”, is filled with the honey from the harvest. It is lowered from the tree using a rope made of lianas. Honey is important in the Likouala and for the N’Bensele clan who specializes in this activity. August and September are the big honey season in these rainforests with big marshy zones that favor the proliferation of flowers and bees' nests. Likouala, Congo
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The pygmy canopy honey. The honey-hunters have put the morning honey harvest on a Marantaceae leaf. The period with an abundance of honey is called
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© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
The pygmy canopy honey. The honey-hunters have put the morning honey harvest on a Marantaceae leaf. The period with an abundance of honey is called “Nbosso”, August September. Everybody is in the forest and there's no one left in the village. It's during this period that they make “Douma”, the honey wine, or mead, that was until only recently the only alcohol consumed by the pygmy people. Likouala, Congo
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The pygmy canopy honey. Surrounded by bees, the honey-hunter balancing on the tree trunk plunges his hand into the nest to harvest the honeycombs. In
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
The pygmy canopy honey. Surrounded by bees, the honey-hunter balancing on the tree trunk plunges his hand into the nest to harvest the honeycombs. In the N’Bensele clan, the best way to find a wife in the camp is to give her honey. A man has to know how to climb and not be afraid of stings. Likouala, Congo
