By posing for us, are these red-billed oxpeckers imposing on the impala? Well, science hasn"t quite decided on this one. The relationship between parasite-eating birds and hoofed mammals was once considered a textbook example of mutualism, with oxpeckers cleaning up the ticks and fleas that bug the bigger beasts. Which is what we"d like to think is going on here.
Relationship status: It s complicated
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A fortress in the sky
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Beyond Walls for World Refugee Day
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What s better than a smile?
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A red fox on the Swiss side of the Jura Mountain range
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Of moles and liquid nitrogen
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Celebrating 30 years of eye-opening images
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Once upon a time there was a bridge…
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Hyalite Creek at Custer Gallatin National Forest, Montana
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Clouds over the River of Grass
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‘Ocian in view! O! The joy.’
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The Kelpies statues in Falkirk, Scotland
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The aftermath of a meteorite
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Museum Night in Berlin
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Have a ‘beary’ good Earth Day
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A seabird gets schooled
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Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve in Costa Rica
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Art in the high desert
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Things are looking up
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