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Birds, with their exquisite adaptations to land, water, and air, are among the most abundant vertebrates on earth. One of the many benefits of the baobab for the Hadza is its well-known association with a great variety of birds, part of the remarkable biodiversity the tree supports. With its rivers, lakes, and marshes, and its many kinds of fruiting trees, the rich mosaic savanna of the eastern Rift Valley supports a diverse population of resident and migratory birds that have likely played a part in hominin evolution (Stidham 2005; Prassack 2011; Morelli et al. 2015; Blasco 2016; Negro et al. 2016). The significance of birds in hominin evolution is receiving increasing attention today; at the Eleventh Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies in 2015, there was a section of oral presentations under the heading “Human-Bird Relationships in Hunting and Gathering Societies.” Birds are indeed significant in the material culture and spiritual life of the Hadza and of other African savanna foragers, and the baobab/bird association is yet another contributing factor to the idea of the baobab as an ecological tree of life. As previously noted, it is this status as an ecological tree of life that makes the baobab a resource-rich environment for the Hadza, and would likely have made it a resource-rich environment for early hominins as well.

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