Close companions

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A Red-billed Oxpecker (Buphagus erythrorhynchus) is seen cleaning the nostril of White Rhino in Pilanesberg National Park, South Africa.   The Red-billed Oxpecker is native to south and east Africa.   Another oxpecker, the Yellow-billed Oxpecker is found more broadly in sub-Sahara Africa, stretching from Senegal, on the Atlantic Ocean to Sudan, on the Red Sea.   The two species do mingle in East Africa and when feeding together, the Red-billed always gives way to the Yellow-billed, even though it usually out-numbers the other.

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