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Very unusual deep in the rain forests of the Amazon “vampiric” nocturnal moths feeding on … tears of sleeping birds.
Surely many of us will have a hard time believing this, however by turning on the video below, you can see this amazing process with your own eyes. In the dark when the bird fell asleep on a branch, a large butterfly flew up to her, sat on her neck, launched a proboscis in the eye and began to eagerly drink tears feathered.
Many users of the World Wide Web, watching this video, called it very unpleasant and even somewhat frightening. By Nevertheless, experts say that there’s nothing wrong with it absolutely does not happen. According to Brazilian scientist Leandro Moraesha, the proboscis of the butterfly is too gentle for anything damage the bird’s eye. Apparently, the mole gets so way “cocktail” of amino acids and salts lacking for it sodium.
It’s reported that this is a tropical scoop butterfly, enjoying the tears of a black-necked brook ants. According to According to experts, the bird can also receive from this procedure certain benefits. Most likely, the “vampiric” mole at the same time cleans the lacrimal ducts of the feathered in a similar way from dust and mud. In nature, this phenomenon is called symbiosis: with this a form of relationship, two different kinds of organisms are extracted from certain, moreover, mutually beneficial benefits.
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