Dry your eyes, mate: Bizarre phenomenon sees several butterflies drinking the tears of turtles in Amazon rainforest to source sodium for fertilisation

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By Luke Kenton Desperate times call for desperate measures, as these sodium-deprived butterflies try to source salt from the most unlikely places – including from the teardrops of turtles.  In the western Amazon rainforest, sodium is deemed to be an incredibly scarce element, due to it being situated so far away from the nearest ocean […]

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