Ceveroamerikanskie shovels used microhylidae snakes as nurses

Services nurses are not only people, but also, for example, an owl? As most of these nurses eastern screech owl used microhylidae snakes. This is a very small snakes, which live underground, but the owl fished them out of the ground and carefully shift in their nests. There owls snakes feed the larvae of beetles and other insects that they feed on, and the snake probably in gratitude guard the nest and chicks of all hunters to profit by them. After all, despite the fact that microhylidae snake is very small, it is still a snake!

Scientists have discovered these nurses almost every fifth nest North American scoop. And, as we found out, the chicks in the nests of such a small thing that are much more likely to survive than their counterparts without a nanny, so they also develop more quickly.

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