a plover cleans a crocodile's teeth.
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 plover picks lice from a crocodile|<~
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 name of that bird is Egyptian Plover
crocodile
No You have a fetis
scraps of meat in between nile crocodile's teeth
Nile Plover
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.
(a)Egyptian plover (crocodile bird) (b) Oxpecker (c) Bluestreak cleaner wrasse (d) Remora
The Plover bird picks lice off of the crocodile.
An example is an Crocodile and an Egyptian Plover, the bird (Egyptian Plover) cleans the crocodile's mouth, this is mutualism. They crocodile benefits it now has a clean mouth, and they bird benefits, it has eaten/.