oxpecker

However, the oxpecker can irritate other wounds by pecking at them, too.

Giraffe have a symbiotic relationship with a few types of birds, most notably the oxpecker.

Some oxpecker hosts are intolerant of their presence.

It also will feed from the backs of large mammals, like an oxpecker, and occasionally will eat fruit which has fallen to the ground.

The two species of oxpecker are sympatric over much of East Africa and may even occur on the same host animal.

The typical clutch is between two to three eggs, but the Red-billed Oxpecker may lay up to five eggs.

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He scientifically describes the Striped Kingfisher and the Red-billed Oxpecker.

With scissor-like movements of the beak, the red-billed oxpecker combs their hosts' hair in search of ticks.

Red-billed Oxpecker - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.

Considering the known biogeography of these groups, the most plausible explanation seems that the oxpecker lineage originated in Eastern or Southeastern Asia like the other two.

Like most black rhinos, they were believed to have been nearsighted, and would often rely on local birds, such as the red-billed oxpecker, to help them detect incoming threats.

Oxpeckers do eat ticks, but often the ticks have already fed on the ungulate host and no statistically significant link has been shown between oxpecker presence and reduced ectoparasite load.

Black did the voice-over for an oxpecker named Ted in Cartoon Network series My Gym Partner's a Monkey, appearing in "Hornbill and Ted's Bogus Journey."

Javan Mynas are as accomplished in cities as they are in padi fields, where they will prey on insects disturbed by water buffalo, often riding the buffalo like the related oxpecker.

The Red-billed Oxpecker (Buphagus erythrorhynchus) is a passerine bird in the starling and myna family Sturnidae; some ornithologists regard the oxpeckers to be in a family by themselves, the Buphagidae.

The latter is probably due to the fact that the oxpecker lineage never occurred in areas where conditions were good for fossilization of small bird bones, but of course, fossils of ancestral oxpeckers may one day turn up enabling to test this theory.