Interactions between red-billed oxpeckers, Buphagus erythrorhynchus, and domestic cattle, Bos taurus, in Zimbabwe

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1253-1259

  Weeks, Paul ^a  

^a Department of Zoology ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; MAMMAL; MUTUALISM; TICK;

LIMPOPO VALLEY; MOZAMBIQUE;

ACARI; AVES; BOS TAURUS; BUPHAGUS ERYTHRORHYNCHUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0033452057     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1999.1265     Document Type: Article

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