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Saturday, February 11, 2012

The Luckiest Butterfly


I first saw this video last summer after a tweet from the folks at the East Lansing Wild Birds Unlimited (@wildbirdsunlmtd).  How amazing is it that this butterfly not only survives being attacked and dragged to the water by a dragonfly, but also being swallowed by a Snapping Turtle.  The tiny hairs on the butterfly's wings must have trapped enough air to make it buoyant - that is just a guess, but I can't imagine why else it would float to the surface like that. 

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