Helping Each Other

I love this picture, so I had to give it its own blog post. The buffalo and the egret have a pretty symbiotic relationship. The egret feeds on the ticks and other insects on the buffalo's skin. What a delightful meal - yum! By pecking them right off the buffalo's skin, the egret is saving the buffalo from a whole lot of fly swatting. The buffalo doesn't do much to reciprocate. He just attracts the insects. Works out nice for both of them - isn't helping each other swell?