Image: PloverCrocodileSymbiosis
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Description: A small bird such as a plover or sandpiper, representing the Trochilus described by Herodotus, eats leeches from the gaping open mouth of a Nile crocodile in an early example of Cleaning Symbiosis.
Title: PloverCrocodileSymbiosis
Credit: http://www.50birds.com/gendalligators2.htm, image taken from Popular Natural History, 1909
Author: Henry Scherren
Permission: PD-Old-100 and PD-1923; Scherren died in 1911 so copyright has expired.
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License: Public domain
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