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Article Category: Letter
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Online Publication Date: 02 Oct 2020

Yellow-Headed Caracara as a Cleaner of White-Tailed Deer in an Urban Park

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Page Range: 319 – 321
DOI: 10.3356/0892-1016-54.3.319
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Keywords: Yellow-headed Caracara ; Milvago chimachima; white-tailed deer ; Odocoileus virginianus; cleaning symbiosis ; diet ; urban park
Copyright: © 2020 The Raptor Research Foundation, Inc. 2020
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Figure 1.
Figure 1.

Adult Yellow-headed Caracara removing ectoparasites from the ear of a young male white-tailed deer at Parque Natural Metropolitano (PNM), Panama City, Panama. Photograph by Finote Gijsman.

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1 Present address: Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany; email address: finotegijsmankelemu2019@u.northwestern.edu

Received: 08 Jan 2020
Accepted: 18 Mar 2020
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