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...

The yellow-billed oxpecker (Buphagus africanus) is a passerine bird in the family Buphagidae. It was previously placed in the starling and myna family...

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...

defence against ticks and symbiotic relationship with the tick-feeding oxpeckers could have played a role in preventing major changes in morphology and...

and Rhipicephalus. Giraffes may rely on red-billed and yellow-billed oxpeckers to clean them of ticks and alert them to danger. Giraffes host numerous...

sites include large herbivores on the African savanna that are used by oxpeckers. Many sleeping birds bend their heads over their backs and tuck their...

Law and in the video game based on the show. Black provided the voice of oxpecker Ted in the My Gym Partner's a Monkey episode, "Hornbill and Ted's Bogus...

(Mount Kenya) African buffalo Cattle egret – Black rhinoceros Red-billed oxpecker (Ewaso Ng'iro) Giraffe Grevy's zebra Northern Grant's gazelle (listed as...

represent an extinct starling (see Rodrigues starling for details). The oxpeckers are sometimes placed here as a subfamily, but the weight of evidence has...

ablaut and prefixation." For example, the noun t-æ-s-ȁnan-t, which means 'oxpecker,' is prefixally derived from the causative verb æ̀ss-onæn 'tame, break...

nearsighted and would often rely on local birds, such as the red-billed oxpecker, to help them detect incoming threats. The black rhino, of which the western...

LaMarche) is a white rhinoceros with poor eyesight. He has a red-billed oxpecker named Mwenzi (voiced by Rhys Darby) as his tickbird and friend. His name...

birds, including the vampire finch, Hood mockingbird, Tristan thrush, and oxpeckers, also practise hematophagy. Hematophagous animals have mouth parts and...

slang some birds, especially the woodpecker but sometimes flowerpecker, oxpecker or (rarely) berrypecker 1629 Pecker, an asteroid discovered in 1952 by...

eaten by oxpeckers and egrets. Such behaviour was originally thought to be an example of mutualism, but recent evidence suggests that oxpeckers may be parasites...

Red-billed helmetshrike Red-billed leiothrix Red-billed malkoha Red-billed oxpecker Red-billed parrot Red-billed partridge Red-billed pied tanager Red-billed...

pests. Red-billed oxpeckers and black rhinos have a symbiotic relationship. The oxpeckers feed on the bugs found on rhinos and the oxpeckers warn the rhinos...

Male African buffalo with red-billed oxpecker, partly a symbiotic relationship and partly parasitic...

Rhinos Roll!" Martin Kratt Eva Almos Serengeti Black rhinoceros, red-billed oxpecker, lion, veiled chameleon, giant African land snail, tick March 28, 2011 (2011-03-28)...

World flycatchers and chats Turdidae: thrushes and allies Buphagidae: oxpeckers Sturnidae: starlings and rhabdornis Mimidae: mockingbirds and thrashers...

like the orange chromide or some cleaner shrimps; and some, like the oxpeckers, combine a little eating of parasites (beneficial to client) with taking...

relatives Family Muscicapidae: flycatchers and relatives Family Buphagidae: oxpeckers Family Mimidae: mockingbirds and thrashers Family Sturnidae: starlings...

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is confined to the Galapagos islands. In Africa there is the red-billed oxpecker, these birds can be seen settling on cattle if they see fresh blood, so...

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medium-sized species of owl species Buphagus africanus, the Yellow-billed Oxpecker, a passerine bird species Africanus (disambiguation) This disambiguation...

The red-billed oxpecker eats ticks on the impala's coat, in a cleaning symbiosis....

tick treatments; the acaricide is selected to be safe for the rhino, oxpeckers, vultures, and other animals in the preserve's ecosystem. Ticks of domestic...

progressed to feeding on the mammals themselves (similar to red-billed oxpecker feeding behavior) They initially fed on insects that were attracted to...

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