Birds get parasites and the need a way to get rid of them, well they've already figured out a solution.
Anting is is where birds will lie down on top of an ants nest and let hundreds of ants swarm all over them, the ants secrete chemicals such as formic acid this keeps mites and other pests away, this also acts as a pain killer to the birds and they tend to scoop up mouthfuls of ants and crush them causing the liquid to go into the birds bodies.Sometimes birds can get addicted to this and spend days on top of these ant nests and forget to do basic tasks such as eat or sleep.
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