This impala is looking mighty proud showing off it’s unconventional ‘earrings’, in the shape of two oxpecker birds.
But the fashion forward move, spotted in Kruger National Park, South Africa, was not just down to the bird’s brightly coloured beaks.
The red-billed oxpecker and the mammals roaming the sub-Saharan plains have a mutually benefiting relationship where the birds feed on ticks and other ectoparasites from the animals’ fur.
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