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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 ...

A wildlife video out of Botswana is giving viewers a close-up look at one of nature's more unsettling partnerships: an oxpecker perched on an impala's face, picking at what appears to be parasites.

You’ve seen it: a peaceful image of interspecies togetherness. The adorable oxpecker, perched on the back of a rhinoceros or zebra, happily having lunch while ridding its ride of pesky ticks, flies ...

A wildlife photographer who likes to “think outside the camera” was in the right place at the right time when he snapped an amazing shot of a red-billed oxpecker bird landing on a buffalo’s face to ...