A researcher has documented the rare occurrence of months drinking the tears of unsuspecting and sleeping birds. Biologist Leandro Joo Carneiro de Lima Moraes, of Brazil's National Institute of Amazonia Research, recently published a study in the journal Ecological Society of America, which detailed his observations of moths feeding on birds' tears. It is only the third such case published so far. The first case was found in Madagascar in 2007. The second was in Colombia in 2015. Scientists call the behavior "lachryphagy," wherein the moth would use its long straw-like proboscis to suck up nutrient-filled tears from a sleeping bird's eyes. The proboscis is the same organ butter...
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