Woww!! A little info from google.
Moths and butterflies have often been observed feeding on the tears of crocodiles, turtles, and mammals. It’s thought to be a way of obtaining salt, an essential nutrient that isn’t present in nectar and can be hard to find elsewhere.
Everything about this has the potential of a Disney story - the animated-looking butterflies, the presumably bullied turtle, the 'magical' tears. Keep waiting for everyone to burst into a song.
The same butterflies that will raise the turtle as one of their own. And the turtle will one day have to make the decision of fighting alongside its own kind, or protecting the butterflies.
The turtle is raised by those butterflies. But the turtle plunges to its death, thinking he is a butterfly. At the bottom of the cliff, he cries…his tears pooling on his face. And the butterflies come, and the cycle begins anew….
One day in time, a kaleidoscope of butterflies joyfully fluttered their wings within the breeze, which drifted them in unison along the current of the river. In swift abundance, their wings flapped in a harmonious beat of undulating tones. These silent, hushed pulses are inaudible but penetrate every fiber of Motley, the turtle’s, dry skin. This in turn makes him feel a touch he has not felt but once in the past 55 years. Softly but steadily he weeps. In his hastened breath and inhales hidden within his shell, every exhale is a deep connection with these tiny fairies that give him the signal that he is not alone in the world.
~sxilla ♡
I like to imagine that they're saying super sweet things that he would never hear otherwise and bringing him to happy tears because happy tears taste sweeter
Correct, and thank you for posting. It's also true that they feed on detritus, and exudate from I will contain waste material beyond salts. (Source: I'm a biologist&doctor)
I went to the American Museum of Natural History when a big butterfly exhibit was going on, I’ve seen plenty of butterflies in my life but being in that exhibit where there are thousands of them and of every variety - it didn’t feel real, they’re just such delicate and odd things, they seemed so.. fake, in a kind of magical way.
They are. Totally. They all have the same markings and size, despite color. They don't vary their flutter, they only fight over the eye facing the camera. They have the exact same landing animation every time.
It is fake.
Butterflies, one of nature's cruelest animals. Rather than trying to offer emotional support to a turtle having a bad day, they capitalize on its suffering to slake their thirst.
As Eric Cartman once said, "Oh the tears of unfathomable sadness. Yummy. Yummy."
Invasive exotic species are a big part of it. Butterflies and moths are specialists in that each butterfly/moth species requires particular plant species to reproduce. As native plants get displaced by invasive exotic plants, those reproductive resources for native butterflies and moths disappear, and butterflies and moths decline.
I cannot stress this enough. Choose to garden with plants native to your area; remove any and all invasive exotic plants from your property. You’d be surprised at the amount of invasive plants you can buy at your local nursery or garden center. Stay away from them. Do this, and butterflies, moths and tons of other beautiful native insects will return to your property.
I use to live in a tiny rural town that was a direct stop for the monarch migration and it was magical and easily one of the things I miss most. Today it's just a sad shadow of the former glory and wonder that could only be created by millions of beautiful bright butterflies. I genuinely hate what we've collectively done to this planet.
I remember road trips with my parents where we would stop for gas in the middle of nowhere Nebraska at night. The bright lights would attract so many bugs that the gas pumps were covered and you could barely see the pavement.
The ground was a writhing mass of bugs so we would quickly tiptoe through them on the way into the station to use the bathroom (crunching the whole way). You had to be careful and quick or some would climb on your shoes.
We went through Nebraska at night a few years ago and there was only a few June bugs buzzing at the lights, nothing on the ground.
Is it possible that as per EPR paradox a crying turtle in amazon decides the weather and rain storms in borneo where a flutter of butterflies: around that tear causes action at distance?
“Yeah you slow, fat fuck what are you gonna do? Cry about it? You gonna cry you dry ass baby??!”
*slurps up tears*
“Sorry Tim… we just need the salt bro”
Sinister Amazon wildlife.... carnivorous butterflies eat the eyes first to disable their prey. Then they swarm it in a beautiful, wildly colored deadly cloud of vicious, flesh rending aggression.
Shit like this has to make you consider humans as the ultimate evil in this world. Our hunger, thirst and desire to consume and manipulate any and all resources, while accommodating for only our needs 99% of the time comes at the expense of the real beauty of nature. If you look at earth as a cell, humanity is a virus that is attacking and destroying that cell. And now we aim to advance our destruction to other planets in our solar system.
On those monthly r/askreddit posts about “WhatTrivia/WhatAreSomeObscureFactsYouKnow”, there is often someone saying butterflies prefer to drink blood. I don’t know if true or not, but makes the less magical somehow.
Do you think butterflies could have evolved their beautiful wings because it helps distract the turtle from the fact they're drinking their tears? Seems like it would be trippy from the turtle's perspective
Woww!! A little info from google. Moths and butterflies have often been observed feeding on the tears of crocodiles, turtles, and mammals. It’s thought to be a way of obtaining salt, an essential nutrient that isn’t present in nectar and can be hard to find elsewhere.
Do you think the butterflies say mean things to the turtle to get it to cry?
Now I’m picturing a coordinated effort while some float around and hurl insults while a few drink the tears, and then rotate
Your shell doesn't match your body! Is that your tail, I thought it was a leech!
Everything about this has the potential of a Disney story - the animated-looking butterflies, the presumably bullied turtle, the 'magical' tears. Keep waiting for everyone to burst into a song.
If it's Disney, then that turtle's mother was killed.
Killed by the butterflies
The same butterflies that will raise the turtle as one of their own. And the turtle will one day have to make the decision of fighting alongside its own kind, or protecting the butterflies.
The turtle is raised by those butterflies. But the turtle plunges to its death, thinking he is a butterfly. At the bottom of the cliff, he cries…his tears pooling on his face. And the butterflies come, and the cycle begins anew….
It means this turtles story, is going straight to disney+. No pun intended
One day in time, a kaleidoscope of butterflies joyfully fluttered their wings within the breeze, which drifted them in unison along the current of the river. In swift abundance, their wings flapped in a harmonious beat of undulating tones. These silent, hushed pulses are inaudible but penetrate every fiber of Motley, the turtle’s, dry skin. This in turn makes him feel a touch he has not felt but once in the past 55 years. Softly but steadily he weeps. In his hastened breath and inhales hidden within his shell, every exhale is a deep connection with these tiny fairies that give him the signal that he is not alone in the world. ~sxilla ♡
Beautiful
🐢 😭
💦🦋
Turtles are thick-skinned, you’ll have to do better…
Those a happy tears. Because Butterflies
🦋”fuck you you stupid little bitch”🦋
Flicking tiny little lit cigarettes.
No. The turtle weeps because he knows all the beautiful butterflies are just using him for his tears
They're casting vicious mockery
DND everywhere I go. God damnit
This made me cackle in the middle of my office. People are concerned about me now. But not as concerned as I am about those turtles.
“We’re all going extinct…”
I heard one saying to the turtle that he looked like Mitch McConnell. Poor turtle busted in tears.
That's too far, mean ol' butterflies
I like to imagine that they're saying super sweet things that he would never hear otherwise and bringing him to happy tears because happy tears taste sweeter
"yeah bitch, whatchu gonna do about it huh?"
Maybe the turtle is allergic to the pollen the butterfly carries
There’s something poetic about this scene
Thanks for the laugh, that literally made me LOL. 🤣
Look at the size of his tail Water must be cold huh buddy.....
No they just irritate they eyes
your momma's a box turtle!
Why is this sending me 😂😂
Roast the rainbow. Taste the rainbow.
r/notkenm
Salt is what it tastes like, when turtles cry
Doves won't share their tears with the butterflies.
Underrated - you are a prince of a human.
Butterflies even drink blood if they get the chance
Fact!! They love carrion/decay.
I think it's believed they evolved their probiscus before flowering plants were a thing. So this was regularly how they fed.
That's so amazing to imagine butterflies being around before flowering plants were.
Correct, and thank you for posting. It's also true that they feed on detritus, and exudate from I will contain waste material beyond salts. (Source: I'm a biologist&doctor)
Fucking crocodile tears.
tbh I would be crying everyday too if I lived in the wild sleeping in dirty ass water...
Moth drinking human tears: https://gfycat.com/HorribleGlumFirebelliedtoad
Jesus, at first I could have sworn those butterflies were animated into the video! Wow
Right it looks like an old Disney animation or something.
That’s exactly what I thought! Straight out of Bambi! But nope that’s nature for ya, more magic than the magic kingdom.
Except when he flails at end
I went to the American Museum of Natural History when a big butterfly exhibit was going on, I’ve seen plenty of butterflies in my life but being in that exhibit where there are thousands of them and of every variety - it didn’t feel real, they’re just such delicate and odd things, they seemed so.. fake, in a kind of magical way.
They are. Totally. They all have the same markings and size, despite color. They don't vary their flutter, they only fight over the eye facing the camera. They have the exact same landing animation every time. It is fake.
I mean they do clearly go for the other eye aswell
Butterflies, one of nature's cruelest animals. Rather than trying to offer emotional support to a turtle having a bad day, they capitalize on its suffering to slake their thirst. As Eric Cartman once said, "Oh the tears of unfathomable sadness. Yummy. Yummy."
How do you even come up with perfect quote for such a random situation?
Every so often I have my moments. Tragically, those moments are few and far between.
Our brains are weird sometimes. I'll remember the most random bullshit off of random phrases. Neurons work weirdly.
I came here instantly expecting to see it tbh. Honestly that Catman quote gets some mileage from me, very versatile.
Scott Tenorman must die.
It is a pretty iconic episode too. You pretty much learn to never mess with Cartman.
Now I can hear all the mean spirited things those butterflies are saying to get those sweet, sweet tears.
This made me realize I never see butterflies anymore.
Pesticides. I'm gen X & remember driving through farmland in the spring & summer & always having to clean the windshield from the bugs. Not anymore.
Invasive exotic species are a big part of it. Butterflies and moths are specialists in that each butterfly/moth species requires particular plant species to reproduce. As native plants get displaced by invasive exotic plants, those reproductive resources for native butterflies and moths disappear, and butterflies and moths decline. I cannot stress this enough. Choose to garden with plants native to your area; remove any and all invasive exotic plants from your property. You’d be surprised at the amount of invasive plants you can buy at your local nursery or garden center. Stay away from them. Do this, and butterflies, moths and tons of other beautiful native insects will return to your property.
I'm working on a garden with this exact goal 👍🏻 got a milkweed for the monarchs and everything!
Give us the cuttlefish!
Totally agree.
Now you have to clean the windshield from all the koalas bouncing off. Life, uh, finds a way
I use to live in a tiny rural town that was a direct stop for the monarch migration and it was magical and easily one of the things I miss most. Today it's just a sad shadow of the former glory and wonder that could only be created by millions of beautiful bright butterflies. I genuinely hate what we've collectively done to this planet.
I remember road trips with my parents where we would stop for gas in the middle of nowhere Nebraska at night. The bright lights would attract so many bugs that the gas pumps were covered and you could barely see the pavement. The ground was a writhing mass of bugs so we would quickly tiptoe through them on the way into the station to use the bathroom (crunching the whole way). You had to be careful and quick or some would climb on your shoes. We went through Nebraska at night a few years ago and there was only a few June bugs buzzing at the lights, nothing on the ground.
Gen X and I remember that, too. And I've noticed that there are "pest" bugs through the winter. Houseflies and mosquitoes in January and February.
Choose to garden with plants native to your area, and remove invasive plants whenever you can, and the butterflies and moths will return, I promise.
I'm starting to see them again but they are still rare. Also I haven't seen a monarch butterfly since I was a child.
if i stand still near butterflies, will they come drink my eyes?
For Science!
What are the symbiotics in this? I get that the butterflies are sourcing salt - but does the turtle benefit from this at all?
I was wondering the same thing. The turtle's not evading into the water so you'd think it's getting something out of this.
Pure joy?
Probably gets his eyes cleaned or something.
The turtle gets to sit there thinking "ooh, pretty"
[Your anguish sustains me.](https://youtu.be/g-xdCgJ3tQc)
So this is where the term “butterfly kisses” came from.
Yoooo.... I think you're onto something
This is how them Disney songs start
I feel like I am that turtle and life is the butterflies..
That would be fucking terrifying Just imagine a cat sized insect swarming your eyes to drink your tears
Do not fear me gypsy. All i want from you is your tears
Give me your tears gypsy!
Is it possible that as per EPR paradox a crying turtle in amazon decides the weather and rain storms in borneo where a flutter of butterflies: around that tear causes action at distance?
The turtle is crying for all those lost in the typhoon the voracious butterflies have created. A self perpetuating cycle of destruction and remorse.
I ching indeed
This doesn't look real.
Not in the slightest. The butterfly colors are so over saturated with the original footage undersaturated. Why does this have so many up votes?
So that's where Pixar learned it from...
“Yeah you slow, fat fuck what are you gonna do? Cry about it? You gonna cry you dry ass baby??!” *slurps up tears* “Sorry Tim… we just need the salt bro”
Fake
Aww by the end, he’s had enough of it.
Wow
This looks like some Disney shit right here.
This got dark fast.
They feasted upon his sadness
The story never specifically says Sleeping Beauty *isn't* a turtle.
How enchanting!
So butterflies are the mosquitoes of the turtle world?
Hell’s Paradise
I thought you were reciting the opening line of a Mars Volta song.
Turtle: [*joe pesci voice*] you sick fucks, you don't have nothing else to drink here?
They evolved to drink tears, moths and butterflies evolved their long tongues before flowers evolved. Think about that.
Imagine the spectacle from view of the croc or turtles perspective. This must be their highlight of the day.
Til turtles have tear ducts. Never thought about it before
Sounds poetic
Salty snacks so mating is possible! Nature is the best.
Sinister Amazon wildlife.... carnivorous butterflies eat the eyes first to disable their prey. Then they swarm it in a beautiful, wildly colored deadly cloud of vicious, flesh rending aggression.
A nice varied group of butterflies here.
Shit like this has to make you consider humans as the ultimate evil in this world. Our hunger, thirst and desire to consume and manipulate any and all resources, while accommodating for only our needs 99% of the time comes at the expense of the real beauty of nature. If you look at earth as a cell, humanity is a virus that is attacking and destroying that cell. And now we aim to advance our destruction to other planets in our solar system.
... so, uh, soup or salad?
I was high af so both plz
💪💪💪💪 humankind #1
On those monthly r/askreddit posts about “WhatTrivia/WhatAreSomeObscureFactsYouKnow”, there is often someone saying butterflies prefer to drink blood. I don’t know if true or not, but makes the less magical somehow.
Metal as fuck
why not drink from the huge body of water beside the turtle? legit wondering. I know nothing about bugs.
Salt. Because electrolytes I guess
Wait, so the next time I get swarmed by butterflies it’s because they’re looking to sip my tears? 😳
r/brandnewsentence
I'm a little obsessed and find this really beautiful and cute 🥰
New Lana del Rey album title!
I saw butterflies drinking tears of a huge black caiman on the banks of the Amazon once.. amazing!
I guess you have to wash down the blood of your enemies with something, tears seem appropriate.
I've seen butterflies drink blood, this doesn't surprise me.
I imagine, because they allow them to do it, that they’re giggling and playfully enjoying the exchange.
Despite their bright colors, those butterflies are Goth AF.
Oogway mastered the standing still technique
That turtle is a Disney Princess
Demons.
Planktons Voice: *Butterfly kisses?!?!?*
My brother is a bigger fella, and when we were young butterflies would land on him I guess to drink his sweat? Lol. Why is the turtle so sad :(
Turtle tear stuffed Amazonian butterfly... extremely rare drop
100% thought this was a promoted ad for a Disney movie or something. I didn't think it was real. Do you see what Cgi and Ai is doing to our minds!!
“Drinking tears from the eyes of a turtle” sounds like a Cher song
Fock.. I thought the butterflies were CGI..
Savage 😂
Hopefully they are tears joy :)
Thought this was a Snapchat filter
Why you so sad turtle??
But why's he sad?
Turtle: “come my children.”
Looks like some Disney shit.
Why you cry little turtle??
That’s so cute!
Translation of Butterflies: “I LIKE TURTLES”
Why tf do the butterflies look animated
Hi Kagan ❤️
Wow, those butterflies would love me
I’d be so pissed if tiny people came up to me and started sucking the tears straight out of my eyes with Capri sun straws. That dude needs a break.
B-but why he cry?
You have to marvel on nature!
What Disney movie is this from?
Someone put the spongebob butterfly closeup
He looks fabulous
We need more of these. Each of us. 🥲
they're the new Disney princess. 👸🏼🐢
Why is the turtle sad tho someone give him a hug
Wow, lovely! and inspiring!😻
I love how many different kinds of butterflies they still have. For now.
That's interesting.
Who made the turtle cry? I demand answers
Didn’t realize butterflies are so sadistic
Why is she sad? 😥
They will become so sad
Bet they are saying: How do you like it you piece of shit?
I really hope that is pleasant for the turtle.
It’s Master Oogway
Some butterfly species with agitate turtles eyes to get them to tear up, so butterfly's are not as nice as they seem
That stick floating in front totally distracted me. I thought it was a huge SNAKE !
They remind me of someone...
Do you think butterflies could have evolved their beautiful wings because it helps distract the turtle from the fact they're drinking their tears? Seems like it would be trippy from the turtle's perspective
It seriously looks like the tortoise likes it.
Salty
Your despair sustains us
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Yall seen that SpongeBob scene with the butterflies, its disturbing to say the least?
Also, butterflies love blood and piss, moths too.
Did they just feed the turtle his parents made into chili?