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It sounds poetic, but it apparently true: in the Amazon, bees and, more often, butterflies, flap around the heads of turtles to drink their salty, salty tears. It truly a sight to behold. Really, I would recommend heading over to LiveScience to see some of the photographs of butterflies crowding the faces of turtles. The butterflies sometimes blind the turtles, sometimes making them oblivious to photographers and easier to capture on camera. Phil Torres, a researcher at the Tambopata Research Center in Peru, told
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