Zebra and Yellow-billed Oxpecker












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Oxpeckers feed on parasites that live on ungulates, and also on blood from the wounds left when they eat ticks. There's some debate over whether they do more good or harm, but the animals tolerate them.

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Equus burchelli and adult (I think) Buphagus africanus africanus, Amboseli, June 22