Written by Crying Buffalo UK.
Recently, scientists and researchers noticed something extraordinary…
Yellow-billed ox-peckers between the hind legs of a giraffe — not eating parasites, but roosting!
These are the birds we often see on herbivores.
You will find two types; the red-billed and yellow-billed oxpecker.
At night, red-billed ox-peckers roost in trees, so it was assumed the same with yellow-billed ox-peckers.
The reason for this is not factual, but believed it might be because the yellow-billed (photo) are more fussy than the red-billed -the yellow prefers the giraffe and buffalo, and usually, these large herbivores move away from trees by the morning…
So, it is believed the yellow-billed ox-peckers stay put so they do not have to look for their favourite host species -they do not move off the animal 24/7.
Picture: Supplied