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Pet Mutation Shards in Grow a Garden are items that can be used to apply Mutations to your Pets. The Oxpecker Pet Mutation Shard is among the Safari-type Shards added to the experience with the Safari ...

They show the impala twisting and turning its head clearly satisfied as the talented Oxpecker works its magic. Zoologist and wildlife photographer Mogens Trolle, from Denmark, snapped the incredible ...

Oxpecker is among the newest Pets in Grow a Garden, introduced with the Grow a Garden Safari Harvest event. It's a black bird with a yellow-orange beak. You can acquire it from the Safari Egg Pack ...

Red-billed oxpeckers hitching rides on the backs of black rhinos are a common sight in the African bush. The birds are best known for feeding from lesions full of ticks or other parasites on a rhino’s ...

You’ve seen it: a peaceful image of interspecies togetherness. The adorable oxpecker, perched on the back of a rhinoceros or zebra, happily having lunch while ridding its ride of pesky ticks, flies ...

Ticks, leeches, mosquitoes, vampire bats—when it comes to creatures that live by the vein, these are the usual suspects. But what if I told you there was a little blood-slurping birdy more diabolical ...

The vampire bat might be nature’s purest super-villain. But it’s not the only flyer known to subsist off of the blood of its prey. Here are four birds that also practice "hematophagy." Hematophagy is ...

They show the impala twisting and turning its head clearly satisfied as the talented Oxpecker works its magic Get daily headlines and breaking news alerts for FREE by signing up to our newsletter The ...