The Alliance of the Crocodile and the Toothpick Bird: Africa's Largest Crocodile, the Nile Crocodile, Exhibits Unusual Gentleness Towards Toothpick Birds
In the great outdoors, there is a 'symbiotic alliance' relationship between two closely interacting but different species that live together, mutually beneficial, and if separated, either one or both parties will face a greater survival crisis. For example, crocodiles have allies even though they are cold-blooded reptiles, that are the needle-legged birds, distributed in southern Sahara Africa, forming such a peculiar symbiosis.needle-legged birdsabout the size of pigeons, with a body length of 22 cm and a weight of 80-92 grams, it is a wading bird, active near wetlands and riverbanks, especially along the Nile, and living along the Nile, it will inevitably encounter the crocodile that dominates the Nile, the crocodile, which is also very omnivorous, but becomes allies with needle-legged birds.
crocodiles are the largest crocodiles in Africawith a length of 2-6 meters, when crocodiles grow to more than five meters, there are almost no enemies in the animal kingdom. At this time, crocodiles will attack lions and other fierce beasts, even humans. The crocodile's menu almost includes everything, including small crocodiles, such a ferocious crocodile will not harm the needle-legged birds at all, it is extremely gentle to the needle-legged birds
needle-legged birds can obtain enough food sources from the crocodile's parasites and leftover food from its mouthcrocodile and needle-legged birds have cooperated for thousands of years, so they formed a tacit understanding
the crocodile's huge mouth full of killing power, is pecked at by the needle-legged birds in the crocodile's mouth, didn't it get injured? When the crocodile closes its big mouth to swallow, the needle-legged birds only peck a few times in the crocodile's mouth, isthe cold-blooded crocodile can understand the meaning immediately opens its mouth to let the needle-legged birds fly awaythey have early reached a certain tacit understanding, even cold-blooded crocodiles understand cooperation, and mutual benefit
the crocodile is the largest crocodile in Africa, it is the second largest crocodile after the saltwater crocodile in the world, in the Nile area, due to human greed for crocodile skins, the crocodile was over hunted, and was once endangered, finally due to the widespread promotion of crocodile breeding technology, the crocodile population gradually recoveredPay attention to six-dimensional nature, follow nature, understand nature!
