Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 1, Number 11, DeMotte, Jasper County, 6 October 1932 — Dental Bird [ARTICLE]

Dental Bird

The crocodile, when it feels the need of the services of a dental hygienist, climbs out on the bank of the river in which it makes its home, opens its huge mouth invitingly and waits. In due time a bird known as the Nile-bird comes along, sees the job waiting for it and goes to work. It hops into the crocodile’s mouth and picks off all the leeches and other foreign forms of life which may be clinging to the tongue and cavity walls of the crocodile, and then departs. The reptile then closes its mouth and with not so much as a thank you slides back into the water to accumulate another job for another Nile-bird.