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The animals also attract flies. In this video you can see two egrets following a calf where ever he went. Cattle egrets follow large grazing animals such as rhinos, cape buffalo and cows, snatching insects and small vertebrates stirred up by those animals.
Cattle do not need to be forced to like or eat grass;
The movement of foraging livestock also dislodges various insects from the field, which cattle egrets feed on. This type of symbiotic relationship is called commensalism. A small egret of pastures and. The cattle egret ( bubulcus ibis ) is a cosmopolitan species of heron (family ardeidae) found in the tropics, subtropics and warm temperate zones.
