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Title: Living off your friends
Author(s): Bere, R.M.
Year published: 1963
Journal: Animals
Volume: 1 (13)
Pages: 15-17
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
Ecology - Interspecific Relations
Black Rhino
Of all birds, those which associate most with the larger mammals are the red-billed and yellow-billed oxpeckers. It climbs all over its animal hosts and pecks at the ticks or other external parasites on which it feeds. And as it operates freely on the more sensitive parts such as eyes, ears, an...
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