Oxpeckers are little birds that land on other animals to eat the bugs off of them.
They spend a lot of time on giraffe necks. Partially because the giraffe is mostly neck, but also because they want to get at the face, which the giraffes don’t like.
They are very noisy, which did not impress the buffalo.
The hippos mostly ignore them.
Even when they swarm around.
And land on all sides.
Still singing loudly.
But the hippos really hate when they get into fresh wounds and pick at the sore flesh.
Then the hippos try to roll to get them off, which looks really funny.
Finally the hippo gave up napping and got up to get into the water.
