What’s wrong with this picture?

This is a photograph of a Yellow-billed Oxpecker. A few things to note about this bird… First, its bill is mostly red. But let’s be clear, there is some yellow. And a Red-billed Oxpecker… well… its bill is all red, no yellow at all (although they do have a little ring of yellow skin around their eyes).

Then you come to the next issue, and this seems kind of glaring. The ox that it’s pecking. I mean, it doesn’t really look right for an ox, does it? That’s because it’s actually a Masai Giraffe – you can tell because they’re much taller than your average ox – in fact, this one’s probably 16 feet tall. I guess Oxpeckers play a little fast and loose with their definition of ‘ox.’ Turns out that what an oxpecker is pecking at is a very unreliable indicator of that animal actually being an ox. I personally saw them on animals from Antelope to Zebra (A to Z) (yet, never on an ox). I dunno, maybe there’s a joke in here somewhere about pecking order…