Butterflies Will Drink Turtle Tears. Does Anyone Know The Reason Behind This?

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[{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1456416981553","data":"<p>Do you know that butterflies drink tears of turtles. Don\u2019t be in a trauma, it\u2019s true. You can see this kind of sight in the western Amazon rain forest were you find the butterflies flocking onto the yellow head turtles. What do you think the reason for butterflies drinking tears of turtles? <\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1456417126616","data":"56cf299f779f3"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1456417141132","data":"<p>The tear drops of turtles contain salt, specially sodium which is an important mineral to which the butterflies are likely attracted. This startling behavior of drinking tears of animals is known as lachryphagy. Geoff Gallice, a graduate student of entomology at the Florida Museum of Natural History said that Turtle tears are not the only source of such salts for butterflies. The insects also readily get the salt from animal urine, muddy river banks, puddles, sweaty clothes and sweating people. He witnessed this sight in the western Amazon rain forest.  <\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1456417272552","data":"56cf2a40aeade"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1456417218863","data":"<p>Comparatively, this region has less amount of sodium than many places on Earth. The region is more than 1,600 kilometers away from the Atlantic Ocean, a prime source of salt, this is the main reason behind the shortage of salt. And also this region is cut off by the Andes Mountains from windblown mineral particles to the west. Torres said that Dust and minerals make their way into the Amazon from the east, sometimes all the way from north Africa. But much of this material is removed from the air by rain before it reaches the western Amazon.<\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1456417309586","data":"56cf2a560157e"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1456417323861","data":"<p>You might be thinking that the butterfly feeding help, hurt or have no impact on the turtles? It does have little impact on turtles, by feeding on their tears by obstructing the turtle eyes which perhaps makes them more vulnerable to it\u2019s predators like big cats. In fact, it sometimes becomes easier for the photographer to capture picture of this uncommon sight rather than capturing some bare animals. This kind of feeding does little harm to the turtles. But, the turtles do have enough tears to feed the butterflies as they are taking very little amount of tears. The butterflies simply intake the salts by leaving other minerals through a process similar to absorption by placing the proboscis on the tears and passively feed\". Even bees do drink turtle tears but bees annoy turtles due to their buzzing sound more than butterflies.\n <\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1456419099862","data":"56cf315657a4a"}]

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