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Hunters scale trees with makeshift smoker baskets in pursuit of honey. One Pygmy spots bees swarming and climbs 60 feet up in the air making a long rope and basket out of vines and leaves. He carries a smoldering log to drive the bees from the hive before collecting the honey.

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RANDY OLSON
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Keywords
africa, african tribal peoples, baskets, containers, democratic republic of the congo, ethnic and tribal peoples, forests and forestry, habitats and ecosystems, honey, insect nests, ituri forest, mbuti pygmy tribespeople, nests, peoples, plants, pygmy tribespeople, rain forests, smoke, trees, zaire
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Ituri Forest Pygmy_National Geographic Magazine 9/2005
Hunters scale trees with makeshift smoker baskets in pursuit of honey. One Pygmy spots bees swarming and climbs 60 feet up in the air making a long rope and basket out of vines and leaves. He carries a smoldering log to drive the bees from the hive before collecting the honey.