Brontotherium wander the lush late Eocene landscape
Brontotherium wander the lush Late Eocene landscape of South Dakota 35 million years ago. Modern rhinoceroses have a symbiotic relationship with birds (variously known as oxpeckers or tick birds) that eat parasites they find on the rhino's skin and noisily warn of danger. No doubt similar symbiotic relationships existed between birds and the megafauna of the Eocene
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© Stocktrek Images / Mary Evans
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Walter Myers/Stocktrek Images
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Brontotheres Brontotherium Cenozoic Dakota Eocene Grasslands Grazing Hoofed Horned Megacerops Megafauna Odd Toed Odd-toed Oxpecker Paleogene Parasite Parasitic Perissodactyla Pest Savanna Symbiotic Thunder Toed Ungulate Ungulates
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