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Mutual relationships are common throughout the animal kingdom.

Fish called Ramoras get a tasty meal by picking bits of dead skin and parasites off of sharks,

while the sharks enjoy their undersea spa treatment.

Birds called oxpeckers gobble ticks off the skin of rhinos and

zebras. Pollinators like bees and butterflies help flowers to reproduce while getting a tasty treat.

And now we have evidence for an unusual mutual relationship between warthawgs and banded mongooses.

Packs of mongooses will pile onto wart hogs to pick blood-filled ticks

and other parasites from the wardhog's fur. The hogs get cleaned up while the mongoose get fed.

Everybody wins, well, except for the ticks.

Quite often the warthog will then lie down and actually sort of lift its legs and they'll swarm all over in these groups you've

got for the 15 to 20 individuals and they can just cover the wartshogs.

Wildlife Conservation Society researcher Andy Plumptray, who documented the warthog

mongoose mutualism in Uganda's Queen Elizabeth National Park.

He published his observation in Suiform soundings, the newsletter of the International

Union for Conservation of Nature's Specialist Group for Wild Pigs, Peckeries, and Hippos.

Mutualism is obviously common in nature, but it's uncommon to find it between two different

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