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...
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The yellow-billed oxpecker (Buphagus africanus) is a passerine bird in the family Buphagidae. It was previously placed in the starling and myna family...
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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...
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defence against ticks and symbiotic relationship with the tick-feeding oxpeckers could have played a role in preventing major changes in morphology and...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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(Mount Kenya) African buffalo Cattle egret – Black rhinoceros Red-billed oxpecker (Ewaso Ng'iro) Giraffe Grevy's zebra Northern Grant's gazelle (listed as...
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represent an extinct starling (see Rodrigues starling for details). The oxpeckers are sometimes placed here as a subfamily, but the weight of evidence has...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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birds, including the vampire finch, Hood mockingbird, Tristan thrush, and oxpeckers, also practise hematophagy. Hematophagous animals have mouth parts and...
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slang some birds, especially the woodpecker but sometimes flowerpecker, oxpecker or (rarely) berrypecker 1629 Pecker, an asteroid discovered in 1952 by...
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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...
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Red-billed helmetshrike Red-billed leiothrix Red-billed malkoha Red-billed oxpecker Red-billed parrot Red-billed partridge Red-billed pied tanager Red-billed...
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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...
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Male African buffalo with red-billed oxpecker, partly a symbiotic relationship and partly parasitic...
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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)...
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World flycatchers and chats Turdidae: thrushes and allies Buphagidae: oxpeckers Sturnidae: starlings and rhabdornis Mimidae: mockingbirds and thrashers...
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like the orange chromide or some cleaner shrimps; and some, like the oxpeckers, combine a little eating of parasites (beneficial to client) with taking...
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relatives Family Muscicapidae: flycatchers and relatives Family Buphagidae: oxpeckers Family Mimidae: mockingbirds and thrashers Family Sturnidae: starlings...
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Mortimer and the Riddles of the Metallion Lodius, Humpback Whale, Lion, Oxpecker, Walrus Arcade America Additional Voices 1997 Star Warped 1998 Microshaft...
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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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Dewain Episode: "Heat" Mob City Skeety Episode: "His Banana Majesty" & "Oxpecker" Zane's The Jump Off Dmitri Vance Main cast 2014 The Rebels Football Player...
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medium-sized species of owl species Buphagus africanus, the Yellow-billed Oxpecker, a passerine bird species Africanus (disambiguation) This disambiguation...
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The red-billed oxpecker eats ticks on the impala's coat, in a cleaning symbiosis....
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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...
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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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parasite) Lampreys Male Deep sea anglers False cleanerfish Hood mockingbird Oxpeckers (cleaning symbiosis) Snubnosed eel Vampire bat Vampire finch Cuckoo (brood...
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