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TIL about that the Gorgone Macarea is a moth found in the Amazon jungle, whose whole diet consists of drinking the tears of sleeping birds

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/watch-moth-gently-slurp-tears-slumbering-bird-180970430/
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gvijz0/til_about_that_the_gorgone_macarea_is_a_moth/

Moths Love Sipping the Salty Tears of Sleeping Birds

A researcher in the Amazon happened up on the rare sight in the dead of night while looking for reptiles and amphibians
Jason Daley (Smithsonian Magazine)
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Leonard Ritter
that sounds like a complicated and dangerous way to quench thirst
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