Amazonian butterflies and bees drink the tears of turtles

It fathom poetical , but it ’s apparently reliable : in the Amazon , bees and , more often , butterfly stroke , flap around the heads of turtle to drink their piquant , salty tears . It ’s rightfully a batch to behold .

Really , I would recommend heading over toLiveScienceto see some of the photographs of butterfly crowd the faces of turtles . The butterfly stroke sometimes blind the polo-neck , sometimes make them oblivious to photographers and easier to capture on camera .

Phil Torres , a investigator at the Tambopata Research Center in Peru , told LiveScience that the dirt ball likely reap sodium , and perhaps other fundamental nutrient , from turtles ’ tears . Turtles receive plenty of sodium from the substance in their diets , but Amazonian butterflies and bees need to be a bit more originative . He suspects that the butterfly feeding do n’t harm the polo-neck , though they do seem a second devil by the bees . This particular phenomenon does n’t seem to be well understood at this point ( though Torres has suggest that swab the eyeballs of turtles might ease up some cue ) and apparently has not been honor out of doors of the region .