🦋🐢💧TIL: Butterflies Drink Turtle Tears 🦋🐢💧

@trumpman80

last year(edited)

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Here's a totally random, pretty much useless yet super fun fact I learnt today.

Apparently, butterflies drink turtle tears as a source of sodium and minerals 🤣

Definitely a really bizarre yet beautiful sight!

In return, the turtles... well they get their eyes cleaned. Or maybe not 😂

I first stumbled upon this fact on Reddit, which claimed it was a mutually beneficial relationship.

After doing a bit of digging, it seems it's mostly a one sided relationship as they don't really get much out of it...It doesn't harm em but they are probably a bit annoyed turtle 😠

"They definitely don't seem to enjoy it. This is a fairly colorful example of commensalism — a species partnership where one species benefits and the other species doesn't really get affected, positively or negatively." source

Apparently, this tear-drinking behavior is most common in the western Amazon where the waters don't have much sodium.

As aforementioned, the butterflies feed on turtle tears to get sodium and other minerals, that aren't available from flowers. So in this case they get it from turtles.. Other species go for an even more bizarre and disgusting source... They dive into poop, lmao 😂

Yeah, I'll take the turtle tears anytime 😆😆😆🤣🤣🤣😠

Here are some more videos of this bizarre practice

Ok friends, enough useless information for today. Make sure to follow and subscribe for more dumb stuff like this 😆😂

P.S. @enginewitty check this out 😂🐢

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21 comments

@urrirru59

last year

I never knew before that someone in the world feeds on tears. You do not stop surprising me :)

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@trumpman80

last year

And I keep getting surprised by nature!

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@idksamad7869972

last year

Lmao, it's like butterfly is doing what flies do to us humans - annoy. !LOL but this turtle tears combo 🤣🤣🤣 I'm cracking up.

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@biyimi68

last year

Sometimes I find it difficult to differentiate between turtles and tortoise

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@trumpman80

last year

Tomayto, tomahto 😆

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@incublus76

last year

This is really weird, man. I haven't seen many adult turtles, and the ones I have seen don't have a butterfly on them. I would never want someone to drink my tear lol.

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@leeendah72

last year

Nature surprises me all the time. I wonder how the turtle feels about this...

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@gwajnberg72

last year(edited)

It isn't the first time that I saw an animal feeding from another one tears lol! man this is not so bizarre compared to the classic ants eating the aphid poop, which is much closer to candy to real human poop since is sweet as hell lol

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@yeckingo170

last year

How clever the butterflies are. It's all about the salt!
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@killerwot73

last year

Hahahha this is such a random thing to learn.

I've had a turtle since I was 11 and I let him go into this paddling pool in the back garden on good days... I'm pretty sure if a butterfly came near him he'd go on the attack - not that he's viscious - but if I know Cooter, I know he ain't no push over.

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@silverd51077

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Very very strange. Smart butterflies, slow ass turtle…..🤣

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@qwr61

last year

I didn't see this happening yet but through vedio I am really surprised to see how butterfly drinking tears of turtle. Very amazing.

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@cmmemes69

last year

orphan tears are better :P

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@enginewitty76

last year

I think we (the girls and I) watched an episode of some such shit or another and they had some alligators on there that butterflies go and do the same thing. Good shit man.

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