Black rhinos eavesdrop on the alarm calls of hitchhiking oxpeckers to avoid humans
2020-04-09 15:00
In Swahili, red-billed oxpeckers are called Askari wa kifaru, or "the rhino's guard." Now, a paper appearing April 9 in the journal Current Biology suggests that this indigenous name rings true: red-billed oxpeckers may act as a first line of defense against …
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