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Happy #Feathursday! Great Crested Grebes (Podiceps cristatus) carry their babies on their backs while swimming and diving, helping to teach the chicks to swim and dive relatively quickly after hatching. This illustration was done by the famed French artist Roger Reboussin (1881-1965) in 1952 for the Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 2nd Series, Tome 24 (Jan. 1952). Contributed for digitization in #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary by Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (@le_museum): https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54570322
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