It looks like something a whimsical teenager would knock up on Photoshop, by this picture is completely real. But what’s happening is actually more incredible than the image itself – the butterfly is drinking the turtle’s tears. The Julia butterfly (or dryas iulia) isn’t trying to cheer up the turtle, it is actually a symbiotic relationship between the two creatures. The butterflies undertake the process of lachryphagy, or ‘tear feeding’ as a way of gaining much needed nutrition.
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