On 9/3/2020 4:08 PM, Harry Lee wrote:

> I vaguely recall succineids sticking to birds' feathers and, one 
> classical biologist (? Darwin) who showed a clam attached to a duck's foot.

* Darwin had a report from North America of Elliptio complanata dragged 
about clamped onto a Painted Turtle's foot, and there's a recent paper 
in the Canadian Field-Naturalist about this continuing to happen.

fred.
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