Birds and cows. Help?

Question

Question: Why do some birds stay above the cow or carabao? What do they eat in the cow's skin? what's the name of the bird????

Please help me!!!

Answer 1

Oxpecker.

They're after ticks and flies.

Answer 2

Birds and cows live in protocooperation with each other. That is they live together and both are benefitted from each other.

Birds are benefitted as they get tasty insects that live as parsites on the cows. many species of birds show this kind of relationship- magpies, orioles and flyctchers

Answer 3

Oxpecker They eat the bugs.

Answer 4

They pick engorged ticks.

Answer 5

As stated, many large herbivores (rhinos and water buffalo, for example) have this kind of symbiotic relationship with different bird species (when both species benefit it is called 'mutualism').

The birds benefit by getting food (skin parasites of one kind or another, dead skin, insects disturbed by the passage of the herbivores etc), while it is thought the herbivores may be warned of the approach of predators by the behaviour of birds, in addition to getting many of their parasites removed.

Answer 6

A few different species of birds hang around cows or cattle:

Brown-headed Cowbirds and Cattle Egrets (hence the names), and Oxpeckers.  Oxpeckers eat ticks, fleas and flies off the mammals but also consume wound tissue, blood and other secretions.  Cowbirds and Cattle egrets may also consume insects off the mammals themselves, but may also feed on insects that get kicked up by the animals when they walk, or run.