The Egyptian plover, a wader sometimes called the crocodile bird, is alleged to have a symbiotic relationship with the Nile crocodile, flying by as the crocs' mouths are open to drop bits of meat into them, feeding them. They share adaptations such as that they both wade for food.
The Egyptian Plover (known for it's mutual relationship with the crocadile) lives near lowland rivers and sometimes near large lakes. It lives here to bury its eggs in the warm sand and make its nest near the shore. The Egyptian Plover is mostly found in places with warm climates.
A mutualistic relationship, that is, both species benefit. The bird gets food, and the crocodile gets its teeth cleaned.
The Egyptian plover hops right into the open mouth of the Nile crocodile to remove parasites. After the job is done, whether the crocodile is hungry or not the bird always leaves unharmed.
This symbiotic relationship is actually not proven to be factual at all.
The plover ears the bugs, parasites and dirt that is in the crocodile's mouth. The bird gets food and the crocodile gets its mouth cleaned.
to clean meat out of crocodiles teeth
The reason crocodiles don't eat the plover is because the plover cleans the crocodile's teeth by picking out things stuck between its teeth like floss. Since this is mutual the crocodile gets its teeth cleaned and the plover gets food.
The Plover bird picks lice off of the crocodile.
Egyptian plover
the birds is prey and the crocodile is predator and that my answer
The egyptian plover
The plover rids the crocodile of flies and parasites in its skin, and in return, the crocodile gives the plover protection from its predators, as not many animals will approach them !
The reason crocodiles don't eat the plover is because the plover cleans the crocodile's teeth by picking out things stuck between its teeth like floss. Since this is mutual the crocodile gets its teeth cleaned and the plover gets food.
scraps of meat in between nile crocodile's teeth
The name of that bird is Egyptian Plover
No You have a fetis
a plover cleans a crocodile's teeth.
The Plover bird picks lice off of the crocodile.
The toothpick birdA classic example of symbiosis is the relationship between the fierce African crocodile and the small blackbird plover. It is truly a case of the mouse helping the lion, the relationship between the crocodile and the plover. As it happens, the tiny bird helps the crocodile by removing tiny morsels of food from in between the crocodile's teeth. And what does the bird do with the food thus picked? Eat them, of course. This two-way symbiotic relationship has resulted in a special bond between one of the fiercest creatures and a tiny little one.
Two symbiotic relationships in wetlands are the relationship between the Egyptian Plover and the American Alligator. Another relationship is alga living off of lichens.
(a)Egyptian plover (crocodile bird) (b) Oxpecker (c) Bluestreak cleaner wrasse (d) Remora
Egyptian plover
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