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Yellow-billed oxpeckers hang on the neck of a Masai giraffe as it eats greens along a creek bank in Kenya’s the Masai Mara Triangle.

The yellow-billed oxpeckers hang out on animals like the giraffes feeding off of ticks and other parasites on the animal. In some ways this a symbiotic relationship, keeping their host clean. The oxpecker is itself a parasite, drinking the blood from the sores of it’s host animal which can make wounds slow to heal.

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Yellow-billed oxpeckers hang on the neck of a Masai giraffe as it eats greens along a creek bank in Kenya’s the Masai Mara Triangle.<br />
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The yellow-billed oxpeckers hang out on animals like the giraffes feeding off of ticks and other parasites on the animal. In some ways this a symbiotic relationship, keeping their host clean. The oxpecker is itself a parasite, drinking the blood from the sores of it’s host animal which can make wounds slow to heal.<br />
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#yellowbilledoxpecker #giraffe #masaigiraffe #MasaiMara #MaraTriangle #oxpecker #travel #conservation