PRE WAR

Eugène Alain Séguy. Plate No. 7 from Papillons. Paris. 1928.

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Grasshoppers

Short-eared dogs or jungle dogs (Atelocynus microtis) are a unique and elusive canid species endemic to the Amazonian basin. Since short-eared dogs favor undisturbed habitats, wild sightings are rare. What is known about the species is due mostly to a semi-wild animal named Oso (bottom photo) who was the subject of a ten-year study. The species is threatened by feral dogs, habitat destruction, and diseases like rabies and distemper. (x x x x)

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lachryphagy is the term used to describe the behaviour of tear drinking in nature, typically in environments - like the purvian amazon shown here - where sodium and other micronutrients are hard to find. 

bees and butterflies need sodium for egg production and metabolic purposes, but their diets of nectar are low in salt. so the orange julia and sulfur yellow butterflies you see here turn to the salty tears of often stationary turtles and caiman. 

and though the caiman and turtles seem to receive no reciprocal benefit from the interaction, they’re apparently happy enough to just help out. (x, x, x, x, x, x)