Bird Buddy

Photograph by Akash Das , National Geographic Your Shot

A cooperative bird finds and eats insects from a water buffalo's face in a grooming ritual that pays off for both of them. Wild water buffalo are endangered and live only in a small number of protected areas stretching across India, Nepal, and Bhutan, and a wildlife reserve in Thailand.

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