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The oxpeckers are two species of bird which make up the genus Buphagus, and family Buphagidae. The oxpeckers were formerly usually treated as a subfamily , Buphaginae, within the starling family, Sturnidae , but molecular phylogenetic studies have consistently shown that they form a separate lineage that is basal to the sister clades containing ...
The red-billed oxpecker (Buphagus erythrorynchus) is a passerine bird in the oxpecker family, Buphagidae. It is native to the eastern savannah of sub- Saharan Africa , from the Central African Republic east to South Sudan and south to northern and eastern South Africa .
Black rhinoceros female, with a red-billed oxpecker and scratches on skin, in Nairobi National Park Their thick-layered skin helps to protect black rhinos from thorns and sharp grasses . Their skin harbors external parasites , such as mites and ticks , which may be eaten by oxpeckers and egrets . [ 27 ]
Birds with red bills and eyes, called oxpeckers, perch on giant African buffaloes. ... As Sri Lanka's apex predator, this endangered subspecies embodies the delicate balance of the ecosystem, a ...
Impala are symbiotically related to oxpeckers, [35] which feed on ticks from those parts of the antelope's body which the animal cannot access by itself (such as the ears, neck, eyelids, forehead and underbelly). The impala is the smallest ungulate with which oxpeckers are associated.
The yellow-billed oxpecker (Buphagus africanus) is a passerine bird in the family Buphagidae. It was previously placed in the starling and myna family, Sturnidae . It is native to the savannah of Sub-Saharan Africa from Senegal east to Sudan .
"The otters are a just super voracious predator," said Kerstin Wasson, research coordinator with the Reserve. "We calculated that the current otter population here eats somewhere between 50,000 ...
Cleaning behaviour of yellow-billed oxpecker (Buphagus africanus) on the back of a large mammal Giant moray eel being cleaned by a bluestreak cleaner wrasse Cleaning symbiosis is a mutually beneficial association between individuals of two species, where one (the cleaner) removes and eats parasites and other materials from the surface of the ...