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Sources:
Fruit eating crocodile
http://www.guidetrainingcourses.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Diet-of-the-Nile-Crocodile-Crocodylus-niloticus-in-the-Okavango-Delta-Botswana.pdf
http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/society/fruiteaters/article5455640.ece
https://archive.org/stream/journalofbomb40121938bomb#page/336/mode/2up
https://www.rwrefuge.com/uploads/4/9/4/2/49423019/platt_et_al__2013-_seed_dispersal_crocodilians.pdf
http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1656/058.013.0304
Salad eating shark
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/01/meet-world-s-first-salad-eating-shark
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/06/bonnethead-sharks-eat-seagrass/
http://sicb.org/meetings/2018/schedule/abstractdetails.php?id=1123
http://www.sci-news.com/biology/bonnethead-sharks-consume-digest-seagrass-05611.html
http://german.bio.uci.edu/images/PDF/Jhaverietal.2015CBPA_print.pdf
Snail slurping snakes
https://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=24523
http://biopublisher.ca/index.php/be/article/view/490/593
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274335066_Feeding_behavior_of_the_snail-eating_snake_Dipsas_indica
https://bmcevolbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2148-14-58
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18262581
https://insider.si.edu/2018/07/newly-discovered-snakes-use-curved-teeth-to-pry-snails-from-their-shells/
Nectar-drinking mongoose
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/aje.12225
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27716-voracious-carnivores-caught-knocking-back-sugary-flower-nectar/
Shell-crunching caterpillar:
https://academic.oup.com/ae/article/51/4/245/2474782
http://www.eartharchives.org/articles/meet-the-moth-with-a-taste-for-tortoise/
http://explorer.natureserve.org/servlet/NatureServe?searchName=Ceratophaga+vicinella
https://books.google.ca/books?id=jya9Pc7agAAC&pg=PT74&lpg=PT74&dq=tineid+digestion&source=bl&ots=MTrAwRc9uM&sig=CMjTY-k5BAAkl64LsHcIhA2V894&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiauMy4ks_cAhVO1IMKHSpXB6UQ6AEwAHoECAAQAQ#v=onepage&q=tineiddigestion&f=false
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222933.2014.939731#.VMDUUyd3_Ds
Porta-potty pitcher plant:
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2011/01/carnivorous-plant-feasts-bat-dung
http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/282/1801/20142675
http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/7/3/436
Tear-drinking moth
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/6552800_Malagasy_birds_as_hosts_for_eye-frequenting_moths
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn10826-moths-drink-the-tears-of-sleeping-birds-/
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02526872
https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/these-insects-thirst-tears
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