Red-billed oxpeckers: vampires or tickbirds?
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Red-billed oxpeckers: vampires or tickbirds?
Many recent studies have shown that classic examples of mutualism are either far more complicated than originally believed, or that they are not mutualisms at all. Red-billed oxpeckers (Buphagus erythrorhynchus) are just such an example of an ‘‘adaptive story.’’ These small birds feed almost exclusively on what they can glean from the skin of large African mammals. The relationship is obligate ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Behavioral Ecology
سال: 2000
ISSN: 1465-7279
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/11.2.154