Wading Birds Pay Alligators For Protection By Sacrificing Chicks
Like cold - full-blooded mafioso , alligator provide protection for jampack birds in the Floridian Everglades in income tax return for a eminent price , receiving payment in the form of chicks , according to a Modern study in the journalPLOS ONE . Birds like herons , egrets , and stork have often been observedbuilding their nestsin close proximity to alligator as a agency of staving off predators , which let in animals such as raccoons and opossum ....