This image _Img_3530, was captured in Kruger National Park, South Africa. The 2 Oxpeckers was sitting on the back of the Zebra while they gathered around a waterhole, in the vicinity of Shingwedzi. The photo was taken on 29.08.18. Oxpeckers do accompany various animals, cleaning them from parasites.` There are 2 species: Buphagus africanus; Yellow-billed oxpecker, most of sub-Saharan Africa and Buphagus erythrorynchus; Red-billed oxpecker, mainly east Africa. Both the English and scientific names arise from their habit of perching on large mammals both wild and domesticated such as cattle, zebras, impalas, hippopotamuses, or rhinoceroses, and giraffes, eating ticks, small insects, botfly larvae, and other parasites. Both species of bird which make up the family Buphagidae. `
`Zebra: subgenus Hippotigris are African equines with distinctive black-and-white striped coats. There are three extant species: the Grévy`s zebra Equus grevyi, plains zebra E. quagga and the mountain zebra E. zebra. Zebras share the genus Equus with horses and asses, the three groups being the only living members of the family Equidae. Zebra stripes come in different patterns, unique to each individual. Zebras inhabit eastern and southern Africa and can be found in a variety of habitats such as savannahs, grasslands, woodlands, shrublands and mountainous areas.` Info: www.wikipedia.org
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