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Pelican
After the pelican mother kills her chicks in anger, she revives them by cutting open her breast and feeding the chicks with her blood.
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Bibliothèque Nationale de France Digitized Manuscripts
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Bibliothèque Nationale de France, NAF 13521 (Bestiaire of Pierre de Beauvais, short version), folio 23r
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