“Do a quick Youtube search for oxpeckers, and you’ll find videos of these birds digging into hippo flesh, fighting over buffalo blood and straddling the head of an antelope just to get at a ...

An oxpecker can eat 13,000 of them in a day, and the meals are everywhere -- on antelope, horses, cattle, buffalo, rhino, lion, elephant and leopard. The ticks carry a host of illnesses including ...

In sub-Saharan Africa, red-billed oxpeckers feed on the parasites of rhinos and more than 20 other species of mammal. Now, new research suggests the birds may also serve as sentinels that help ...

Black rhinos eavesdrop on the alarm calls of hitchhiking oxpeckers to avoid humans Date: April 9, 2020 Source: Cell Press Summary: In Swahili, red-billed oxpeckers are called Askari wa kifaru, or ...

Red-billed oxpeckers hitching rides on the backs of black rhinos are a common sight in the African bush. The birds are best known for feeding from lesions full of ticks or other parasites on a ...