Giraffes Responded More Strongly to Lion Calls Than Oxpecker Alarms
Playback experiments with 35 free-ranging southern giraffes in South Africa found that lion vocalisations triggered stronger vigilance than…
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Red-billed Oxpeckers Use Stranded Hippos as Highly Tolerant Hosts
A 2026 study from Namibia found red-billed oxpeckers repeatedly using hippos confined to an isolated pool, with the…
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Oxpecker Foraging and Host Responses Varied Across Mammals in Salambala
At Salambala Conservancy in Namibia, red- and yellow-billed oxpeckers changed their feeding behaviour and body-site use among African…
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