Oxpeckers and mammals – a relationship only found in Africa

Red-billed oxpecker on an female impala

Oxpeckers and mammals – a relationship only found in Africa Everyone knows oxpeckers, those strange birds that hang around on mammals and make their living eating parasites, dead skin and blood. Watching them go about their business on mammals such as impala, zebra, giraffe and buffalo can be quite fascinating. There are two species of […]