Amazing phenomenon: Moths steal tears when birds sleep

In Brazil visitors can witness an amazing phenomenon - the quiet interaction between butterflies and birds.

Moths receive amino acids and sodium salts that their bodies lack in bird tears.

Daily Mail reported, ecologist Leonardo Moraes from the Amazon National Research Institute in Manaus recorded a videotape of the Lepidóptera (a large set of insects, including butterflies and him) drinking . tears of a bird.

It turns out that tropical butterflies (Gorgone macarea) are very fond of the black-necked little bird tears Thamnophilidae (Hypocnemoides melanopogon) , about the size of a sparrow.

Moraes said that by doing so, moths received amino acids and sodium salts that their bodies lacked.

All the cases that the scientist describes are happening at night, when the bird is sleeping without responding to the behavior of the insect.