This is the moment when an oxpecker bird learned that there is such a thing as getting too close to your host. The bird had been pecking at ticks and parasites off the neck of a giraffe bending down ...

The pictures show the grumpy giraffe waiting in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania, for a red-billed oxpecker to finish working as its dentist. The amazing images were taken by Yulia Sundukova ...

It must be tough when you're a giraffe and you get something stuck in your teeth. Luckily help is at hand in the form of a red-billed oxpecker who is more than willing to play safari dentist. In these ...

This spectacular picture appears to capture the moment a love-struck bird leans in for a kiss from a giraffe. But the tiny yellow-billed oxpecker is actually feasting on the larger animal's whiskers.

It may sound like the start of a poor Christmas cracker joke but a wildlife photographer may have just found the answer. It appears some birds seemingly bored with flying around 24/7 and chilling out ...

Photographer Max Waugh, 41, watched the oxpeckers as they hitched rides aboard a number of large animals at Kruger National Park in South Africa. The oxpeckers on the giraffe appear to be sitting in a ...

A photographer has captured the moment a bird fed on ticks inside a giraffe's mouth in Ndutu, in Tanzania. 26 October 2009 • 10:17am Hidden inside the giraffe's fur lies a multitude of ticks and ...

Zoo Miami had two reasons to celebrate on Tuesday. The zoo introduced its new Zoo Squad mascots and welcomed a new baby giraffe. The new mascots include Gigi the giraffe, Kaz the rhino and Pio the red ...