Watch this oxpecker bird's remarkable vanishing act - when he disappears INSIDE a rhino's EAR while searching for ticks to peck at.<br /><br />The clip, filmed on August 26 in South Africa's famed Kruger National Park, shows a male white rhino grazing while the bird flits around its head and crawls into its ear to eat insects.<br /><br />“Immediately our attention was moved to the bird jumping on the head of the rhino and showing a keen interest in the ears of the rhino," wrote the filmer, a long-time wildlife watcher. <br /><br />“The bird then moves straight into one ear of the rhino and suddenly disappears into it. We were stunned and could not believe that this big male rhino was allowing a medium-sized bird to go all the way down his ear."<br /><br />Oxpecker birds are known to feed on dead skin, ticks and insects on rhinos and they cause no discomfort to the animals while grooming.<br /><br />"This rhino clearly welcomed the bird down his ear to get rid of those irritating insects and possible excess earwax," the filmer added.
