Red-billed oxpeckers: Vampires or tickbirds?

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 154-160

  Weeks, Paul ^a  

^a Department of Zoology ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Buphagus erythrorhynchus; Continuum; Earwax; Ixodid ticks; Mutualism; Oxpeckers

Indexed keywords

MUTUALISM; TICK; WOUND HEALING; ZIMBABWE;

BIRD; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; MUTUALISM;

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

EID: 0034094992     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/11.2.154     Document Type: Article

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