In what is perhaps the strangest update we’ve heard from ecologists in a while, a Brazilian researcher has documented – on video – a moth feeding on the tears of a sleeping bird.
Moth Drinking Tears of a Sleeping Bird Caught on Video
It's as weird as it sounds.
By Anna Funk
Sep 26, 2018 9:01 PMJul 28, 2020 12:55 AM
An erebid moth (Gorgone macarea) feeds on the ocular secretions of a Black-chinned Antbird (Hypocnemoides melanopogon) in the neotropical forest in Amazonas, Brazil. (Credit: Leandro João Carneiro de Lima Moraes)
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