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Pelican
The pelican mother's chicks peck at her, and in anger she kills them. Later she regrets her action and cuts open her breast to feed her own blood to the chicks, and they are revived.
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Internet Culturale. Cataloghi e collezioni digitali delle biblioteche italiane
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Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, gr. IV. 35 (Greek Physiologus), folio 28v
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