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| Name | Watch a Diving Bird Pluck a Suckerfish Off a Shark | Nat Geo Wild |
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| Video Discription | Divers off Cabo San Lucas, Mexico captured the only known footage showing a bird called a cormorant pulling remoras, or suckerfish, off a whale shark. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoWILDSubscribe About National Geographic Wild: National Geographic Wild is a place for all things animals and for animal-lovers alike. Take a journey through the animal kingdom with us and discover things you never knew before, or rediscover your favorite animals! Get More National Geographic Wild: Official Site: http://bit.ly/NatGeoWILD Facebook: http://bit.ly/NGWFacebook Twitter: http://bit.ly/NGWTwitter Instagram: http://bit.ly/NGWInstagram Off the tip of Mexico's Baja California Peninsula, divers were surprised by a rare sight: a cormorant bird diving into the water and plucking a remora off the side of a whale shark. Cormorants always feed by diving for fish, but apparently, no one had ever filmed the birds fishing this way. The footage, filmed about six years ago, resurfaced recently online. Experts can't say if it’s a novel behavior or just something that hadn’t been recorded. Remoras, or suckerfish, attach themselves to large hosts, living off scraps. In small numbers, remoras are harmless to whale sharks—maybe even beneficial, removing pests. But lots of remoras could be a problem—slowing the shark down, costing energy gained by filter feeding. If a cormorant lightens the whale shark's load, it might be providing a service. Read more in "Bold Little Bird Dive-Bomb the World’s Largest Fish" https://bit.ly/2XvpY52 Watch a Diving Bird Pluck a Suckerfish Off a Shark | Nat Geo Wild https://youtu.be/36-2AfSwRbE Nat Geo Wild https://www.youtube.com/user/NatGeoWild [36-2AfSwRbE] |
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