The Ibis.
This bird resembles a crane, and when it feels itself ill it fills its craw with water, and with its beak makes an injection of it.
The Stag.
These creatures when they feel themselves bitten by the spider called father-long-legs, eat crabs and free themselves of the venom.
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The Lizard.
This, when fighting with serpents eats the sow-thistle and is free.
The Swallow.
This [bird] gives sight to its blind young ones, with the juice of the celandine.
The Weasel.
This, when chasing rats first eats of rue.
The Wild Boar.
This beast cures its sickness by eating of ivy.
The Snake.
This creature when it wants to renew itself casts its old skin, beginning with the head, and changing in one day and one night.
The Panther.
This beast after its bowels have fallen out will still fight with the dogs and hunters.
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The Chameleon.
This creature always takes the colour of the thing on which it is resting, whence it is often devoured together with the leaves on which the elephant feeds.