{"id":19767,"date":"2018-09-12T09:23:58","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T13:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=19767"},"modified":"2018-09-12T09:23:58","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T13:23:58","slug":"deli-bal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/19767","title":{"rendered":"Deli bal"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was sure I’d posted on this topic before, but a search is yielding no joy, so here goes nuthin’.\u00a0 I first ran across ‘mad honey;’, aka deli bal<\/em> in Turkey, while reading about Apis dorsata laboriosa<\/a> <\/em>– the Himalayan giant honeybee. A few years ago Andrew Newey’s<\/a> photographs of Gurung honey hunters were everywhere on the internet.<\/p>\n

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Below is a video from NatGeo of folks from a different group, the Kulung, harvesting honey. I especially like this for two reasons: it’s a 360 degree shot and it breaks the outdoor videographer’s 4th wall – there is<\/em> a photographer in frame, roped up. I encourage you to watch it full screen and pan liberally.<\/p>\n