In Tanzania, we watched on many occasions when small flocks of red-billed birds descended upon the backs of giraffes, cape buffalo, elephants and hippopotamuses, prancing around like they owned them.

A CURIOUS case of what I believe to be definite commensalism between members of these two classes came under my notice the other day when collecting, and, as it is, so far as I know, a new instance in ...

CASES of Commensalism amongst the higher animals are rare. Those of the Prairie dog and Rattlesnake, in North America, and of the Burrowing Owl and Vizcacha in the Pampas of Buenos Ayres, are, however ...

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