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lauren_g 🏳️🌈🪩🌿🌍 :
This is interesting but my overwhelming feeling is I’m sad the butterfly have nail glue and heavy backpacks on
2026-09-18 06:47:56
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👍🏼 :
Imagine how heavy that additional weight is though
2026-09-18 00:45:58
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Aroi_Mac :
I thought they bred at least once to get there and the same on the way back so it isn't the same butterfly. I'll have to look into this again 🤔
2026-09-17 22:20:18
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Project Genie :
The human need to understand has led us to tagging butterflies. 🦋
2026-09-18 15:12:45
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Cosmic Crumpet :
In 1995 I was working as a plumbers mate and we removed a tank in somebody’s attic/loft. I can remember there being literally millions or dead butterflies, on the insulation floor and all stuck to the walls, every inch of the roof space was covered.. I mean millions .. the lady owner of the property said, they come there to die. Her mother parents said they have been there for over two hundred years up until that day I seen them in 1995…
2026-09-18 17:11:01
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End violence against women 🌍 :
It’s so remarkable that something so small and delicate can travel so far, they can’t pack extra sandwiches for the journey so they must have to stop regularly to feed. What if there’s storms? Just amazing 😵
2026-09-18 00:31:13
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aviee :
but if a bird eats it then maby ur tracking birds instead of butterflies 🤣
2026-09-17 21:17:39
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Morgan Freejam :
Omg you added a backpack to the poor butterfly that has to travel 3,000 miles? That’s cruel
2026-09-17 20:02:38
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Sam Young9509 :
Maybe this is like Benidorm but for Butterflies 🤣
2026-09-19 09:39:51
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rich :
The monarch butterfly uses a magnetic compass to guide its extraordinary migration thousands of km internal magnetic compass tied to light-sensitive proteins in their antennas
2026-09-18 06:57:50
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annabee :
epigenetics maybe? seems to be a good possibility for explaining how information is stored in living beings through generations.
2026-09-17 19:25:49
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lmead07 :
This has made my day
2026-09-17 17:14:27
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liquid_dreams_x :
I thought butterflies didn’t live for very long ?
2026-10-09 18:07:55
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Sean Price :
So the parents and grandparents only survive a few weeks going north but the offspring survive months on the way south, why is that?
2026-10-15 10:15:25
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Sarah Groves Dog Training :
this is what I want to see more of on tiktok!!
2026-10-17 17:44:02
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Issy桂 :
such delicate little things and they make it all that way! I find that incredible, all of it
2026-09-19 11:47:01
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The Observer :
The extra weight they carry !!
2026-09-18 07:38:07
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fi 🏴 :
Fascinating, I love a good educator
2026-09-17 21:09:31
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VG Kôhn Lahn :
Cruel
2026-09-18 05:33:55
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haffsahnazir :
But why???
2026-09-17 16:01:34
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Shaun Sullivan :
Just as we sometimes instinctively know how to leave an unfamiliar street, our brains contain memories and information from our ancestors essential for species survival. This phenomenon is sometimes becomes Dejavue.
2026-09-18 16:59:46
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Peanut :
They actually travel 4828km 😁
2026-10-12 11:52:16
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Mat McMattymat McMattymaticals :
Fascinating! We still know so little about our planet yet spend billions on limited space exploration.
2026-09-20 00:33:36
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Greengoose :
Since when did eyelashes need glue?
2026-09-18 12:40:44
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Sarah🎗💗 :
Does the tracker have an in built satnav 🤪
2026-09-19 14:18:54
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