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Crocodile

In the upper frame a crocodile eats a man, after wich it will cry, but the tears will not be caused by remorse ("crocodile tears"). In the lower frame the crocodile eats fish; in most illustrations it is eating a hydrus.

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Bodleian Digital Library (Digital Bodleian)

Manuscript

Bodleian Library, MS. Bodley 764 [Bestiary (Second Family)], folio 24r

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Bodleian Library, Oxford University (Digital Bodleian)

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