The guinea fowl bird loudly wails in the presence of a predator — the title serving as a metaphor on alerting danger within a ...

"When the guinea fowl see a predator approaching, they make a noise altogether and they say 'Look out,'" shares a voiceover in one of the final moments of Rungano Nyoni's On Becoming a Guinea Fowl.

Given a chance, guinea fowl will live happily in the trees ... birds at the mercy of any flying or climbing night-time predators, but they will also descend at first light in time to meet ...