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Re: dino dental hygiene

hammeris1@bellsouth.net writes:

You won't find many fish cleaning a crocs mouth, they would become lunch. 

So there are no very small/foul-tasting little fishes
that a croc might be genetically inclined to tolerate
for such activity?

Crocs seem to prefer letting birds clean their teeth (nepotism towards close relatives, I suspect). I believe their usual choice of dentist is a species closely related to plovers/lapwings.

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Dann Pigdon
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