Giraffe bed and breakfast: Camera traps reveal Tanzanian yellow-billed oxpeckers roosting on their large mammalian hosts

Meredith S. Palmer; Craig Packer

doi:10.1111/aje.12505

Giraffe bed and breakfast: Camera traps reveal Tanzanian yellow-billed oxpeckers roosting on their large mammalian hosts

Meredith S. Palmer, Craig Packer

Ecology, Evolution and Behavior

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Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	882-884
Number of pages	3
Journal	African Journal of Ecology
Volume	56
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/aje.12505
State	Published - Dec 2018

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The authors thank D. Rosengren and I. Munuo for maintaining the camera traps in Tanzania, Zooniverse for hosting “Snapshot Serengeti”, >70,000 online volunteers for classifying the images (complete list at www.snapshotserengeti.org/#/authors), the Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute and Tanzania National Parks for research permission, and the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute (http://www.msi. umn.edu) for contributing to data storage/processing and analysis. This study was supported by NSF DEB #1020479, NSF GRFP #00039202, and National Geographic explorer grants.

Funding Information:
The authors thank D. Rosengren and I. Munuo for maintaining the camera traps in Tanzania, Zooniverse for hosting “Snapshot Serengeti”, >70,000 online volunteers for classifying the images (complete list at www.snapshotserengeti.org/#/authors), the Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute and Tanzania National Parks for research permission, and the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute (http://www.msi.umn.edu) for contributing to data storage/processing and analysis. This study was supported by NSF DEB #1020479, NSF GRFP #00039202, and National Geographic explorer grants.

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buffalo
camera trap
eland
giraffe
oxpecker
roosting

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