Post #13765

Crocodile Watchman: We have been deceived since childhood. About brushing teeth for crocodiles Half a thousand years BC, the ancient Greek scientist Herodotus was busy describing everything: history, life of other countries and, of course, the habits of animals. One fine day he wrote a short essay about a crocodile guard - an African bird that is friends with crocodiles. He said that the bird feeds on meat from the teeth of crocodiles and warns them of danger. Thousands of years have passed since then, only monuments remain from the ancient Greek civilization, but the story of the bird is so firmly ingrained in people’s minds that it is called the crocodile bird in almost all European languages. What a pity that this story is a lie. Yes, the crocodile keeper actually lives in Africa and does spend a lot of time around crocodiles. But this is where the truth ends and fiction begins. The watchman calmly walks among the crocodiles not because he is a respected cleaner and an alarm system rolled into one. But because none of them will even move for 50 grams of bones and feathers. The watchman, in turn, does not care about crocodiles, because he does not feed on meat from their teeth, but on all sorts of small insects and worms that he digs up in the ground. And he hangs out on the beach not because of good company, but because he has a nest nearby. These birds very elegantly solved the problem of incubating eggs - they bury them directly in the sand, as a result of which the sun itself incubates the offspring, without any participation. True, sometimes it heats up too much, and then, in order to avoid frying the offspring, the birds have to plunge into the water and sit on the eggs. “But how come,” the most attentive of you will object, “you have half the article with photographs of birds walking on crocodile faces! It can’t be that they don’t interact in any way!” “As much as possible,” we will answer you. It’s just that the same Herodotus myth continues to live in the minds of people, and some take advantage of it. Take a closer look at the photos with crocodiles, they are all photoshopped! No exaggeration. There are no real photos of this bird in the mouth of a crocodile. We were duped. Well, life will never be the same again... Author: Yaroslav Ilyin 🏀 Hit the hoop and get an NFT gift — https://t.me/BasketbolX_bot