#IsComplicated - Twitter Hashtag

about 5 years ago

Will add to my Ecology course @ReadingBioSci Classic example of mutualism: oxpeckers get food while removing parasites from hoofed mammals but 👇 seems commensal: likely no gain for🦒 Oxpeckers can also "harm" mammals by forcefully removing fur (nesting material) #IsComplicated

Darren Naish @TetZoo

over 5 years ago

This is amazing if you haven't seen it already: Palmer & Packer's article 'Giraffe bed and breakfast: Camera traps reveal Tanzanian yellow-billed #oxpeckers roosting on their large mammalian hosts'. New to me, even though published 2018... https://t.co/thFSZEQfHm #birds #mammals