Panchatantra Two Headed Bird

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A bird called Bharunda has one body and two heads. When one head finds sweet fruit and will not share, the slighted head spitefully swallows a poison fruit, saying it eats with its own mouth; the single body sickens and both heads die. Moral: division within destroys the whole. — Panchatantra (attrib. Vishnu Sharma)