Natalie Arber, Farm Buddies (ANIMAL 2024)

Farm buddies is a story of a symbiotic dynamic observed between the cattle and the cattle egret birds. It appears that the birds are hanging out with the cows however this is actually a display of a co-dependent mutualistic arrangement - the cows offer the egret ample supply of flies and ticks to eat and in turn the cow gets relief from the annoying infestation of parasitic insects.

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