magilla |
10-06-2005 08:42 AM |
Reminds me of that Far Side cartoon: there's a crocodile on a psychiatrist's couch saying, "Doc? You know those birds that walk around inside a crocodile's mouth eating all the parasites? I been eating those little guys like popcorn."
Anyway, there are fish called wrasses that do this also. They set up a station on a reef and large fish come to have their teeth cleaned. Evolution being what it is, there are also mimic cleaner wrasses, who look just like the real thing. When a big fish swims up and opens its mouth, this guy swims right in, takes a chomp out of his lip or gum, and swims back into his hole right quick
Amazing the things you recall from one Ichthyology class 20 years ago.
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