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The Egyptian plover (Pluvianus aegyptius), also known as the crocodile bird, is a wader, the only member of the genus Pluvianus. It occurs in a band across Sub-Saharan Africa from Senegal in the west to Ethiopia in the east and south to parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Cleaning symbiosis is known from several groups of animals both in the sea and on land (see table). Cleaners include fish, shrimps and birds; clients include a much wider range of fish, marine reptiles including turtles and iguanas, octopus, whales, and terrestrial mammals. [7]
"The Crocodile's Friend" from Henry Scherren's Popular Natural History (1906). The trochilus or trochilos (Greek: τροχίλος, trokhílos = "runner" [1]), sometimes called the crocodile bird, is a legendary bird, first described by Herodotus (c. 440 BC), and later by Aristotle, Pliny, and Aelian, which was supposed to have enjoyed a symbiotic relationship with the Nile crocodile: it was ...
A shallow bird bath is brilliant, not just because it offers the wild birds in your area a place to access clean and fresh water to drink, but also because shallow bodies of water give them the ...
The alligator likely suffered during the healing process, but continued to hunt and eat, experts say. “The section where those teeth should be in her jaw has been filled back in with bone and ...
Extremely broad-snouted species with blunt teeth, like the Chinese alligator and the broad-snouted caiman, are equipped for crushing hard-shelled molluscs. Species whose snouts and teeth are intermediate between these two forms, such as the saltwater crocodile and American alligator, have generalized diets and opportunistically feed on ...
Alligators have about 80 very sharp teeth, experts say. Alligators have about 80 very sharp teeth, experts say. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800 ...
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