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[font=Verdana, sans-serif]The birds you see on the Giraffe are known as Oxpeckers.They feed on ticks,lice and worms that can be extracted from the fur of domestic cattle,buffalos,giraffes, and large antelopes.They produce a scissoring or pecking motion to collect food from the fur.They also enter the ear of giraffes,to get to the ear wax,yum,yum [/font]
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by Carol Clarke
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