Reading your article, I was struck
with a question: Do the oxen form a psychological attachment to their oxpeckers (and vice
versa)? One way of finding this out would be to observe whether the oxpeckers remain
attached to one ox or are fickle partners.
Jeff Leer
Fairbanks, Alaska
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