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Check out this crazy photo. [Info inside]
(hexbear.net)
This photograph series by Mark Cowan documents a phenomenon called 'lachryphagy' ("tear-feeding"). The caiman excretes salt in their tears & the butterflies need the precious minerals for their metabolism & reproduction.
So, they're feeding on crocodilian tears.
(📷: Mark Cowan, Curtin Uni.)
https://bsky.app/profile/c0nc0rdance.bsky.social/post/3lunfcndhfs2e
It's a river turtle from South America
Wow, thanks! This is quite a specimen