This is the moment when an oxpecker bird learned that there is such a thing as getting too close to your host. The bird had been pecking at ticks and parasites off the neck of a giraffe bending down ...

Yellow-billed oxpecker, Buphagus africanus, photographed at Serengeti National Park, Tanzania, Africa. Image: Dan Logen, January 2010 [velociraptorize]. Nikon D300, 600 mm lens with 1.4 extender, ISO ...

In the Swahili language, the red-billed oxpecker bird is called Askari wa kifaru, which translates to "the rhino's guard." Scientists have now figured out exactly how the bird stands guard — ...

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 rhino’s ...

This impala is looking mighty proud showing off it’s unconventional ‘earrings’, in the shape of two oxpecker birds. But the fashion forward move, spotted in Kruger National Park, South Africa, was not ...

The red-billed oxpecker, called “Askari wa kifaru” or the rhino's guard in Swahili, alerts black rhinos to nearby humans and may have developed the behavior to protect food sources existing on rhinos’ ...

Across the savannas of eastern and southern Africa, a small but remarkable bird lives in close partnership with Africa’s largest animals. The Red-billed Oxpecker, proudly named Bird of the Year, plays ...

THE yellowbilled oxpecker is found on the savannas of Africa south of the Sahara. In South Africa it is confined to patches in the Kruger Park and Hluhluwe iMfolozi Game Reserve where they were ...

Yellow-billed oxpecker, Buphagus africanus, photographed at Mikumi National Park, Tanzania, Africa. Image: Dan Logen [velociraptorize]. Question: What are these African mystery birds doing? Response: ...