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 ...

This is the moment a giraffe sent birds flying with an explosive sneeze after it had stopped off for a drink at a watering hole in Kenya. The giraffe could be seen quenching its thirst at Amboseli ...

It would take more than a flock of birds to put this ungainly giraffe off its cool drink. Photographer Corlette Wessels captured the scene as the animal spooked the quelea birds at a waterhole in ...

The giraffe doesn't look entirely happy with the service, but then, who actually enjoys a visit to the dentist? Get daily headlines and breaking news alerts for FREE by signing up to our newsletter We ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

This doctor is so fly. A wildlife photographer spotted a red-billed oxpecker picking food out of a giraffe’s teeth, and caught the incredible (and hygienic!) moment of the bird acting as a dentist for ...

Bird lives for adventure. He wants to swoop, soar and explore. Giraffe is perfectly happy right where he is, thank you very much. He never worries when Bird flits off for a while. But one afternoon ...

Giraffe and bird are curmudgeonly enemies who spend their days irritating one another in every possible way. Bird makes funny faces at giraffe, and giraffe sticks out his tongue at bird. Bird prunes ...

Giraffe and Bird, by Rebecca Bender, is a delightful romp. While geared towards children, the message contained within every page will resonate to any reader regardless of age. For a first time author ...

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 ...