Crocodile Bird
The trochilus or trochilos (Ancient Greek, Greek: wiktionary:trochilus, τροχίλος, ''trokhílos'' = "runner"), sometimes called the crocodile bird, is a legendary bird, first described by Herodotus (), and later by Aristotle, Pliny the Elder, Pliny, and Claudius Aelianus, Aelian, which was supposed to have enjoyed a Symbiosis, symbiotic relationship with the Nile crocodile: it was said to pick leeches from the crocodile's throat by Herodotus, and to pick the crocodile's teeth by Aristotle. The trochilus has subsequently been spuriously identified with several List of birds of Egypt, bird species endemic to the Nile valley. Ancient sources Herodotus According to the Histories (Herodotus), ''Histories'' of Herodotus, the Egyptian crocodiles bask on the shore with their mouths open and a bird called a "trochilus" flies into their open mouths so as to feed on the leeches which, because of the crocodiles' aquatic habitat, live there in abundance: Aristotle In t ...
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