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Black rhinos eavesdrop on the alarm calls of hitchhiking oxpeckers to avoid humans

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Phys.org

Publication Date
2020-04-09

In Swahili, red-billed oxpeckers are called Askari wa kifaru, or "the rhino's guard." Now, a paper appearing April 9 in the journal Current Biology suggests that this indigenous name rings true: red-billed oxpeckers may act as a first line of defense against poachers by behaving like sentinels, sounding an alarm to potential danger.

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https://phys.org/news/2020-04-black-rhinos-eavesdrop-alarm-hitchhiking.html