Moths hover around the face of a moose, drinking its tears, as seen in trail camera images from the Green Mountain National Forest in Vermont. When animals cry, moths start licking their chops. The ...

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In an oddly poetic act, moths will on occasion drink the tears from the eyes of a sleeping bird. Sounds harmless, but this rare interaction is an unmistakably one-sided affair. Scientists actually ...

In a scientific first, trail cam photos show a moth drinking tears from a moose. It may sound like an unsavory snack, but scientists tell Outside there’s a very reasonable explanation for the bizarre ...

Deep in the Amazon jungle, ecologist Leandro Moraes filmed a moth sucking the tears out of a sleeping antbird's eye. The delicately-performed nighttime feeding is a rarely seen event, wrote Moraes in ...

On a research expedition in a forest along the Solimões River in central Amazonia, a researcher came across a scene that is part fairy-tale, part horror movie and quite simply peculiar. In the dead of ...

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It’s been a big month for moth love, with memes about a lamp-obsessed moth trending hard for weeks. But there’s a new moth in town, and it’s a weird one. In a squirm-inducing video clip published last ...

This bird needs a “do not disturb” sign. Ecologist Leandro Moraes stumbled upon a sleeping bird with a moth drinking from its eye during an expedition through the central Amazon in November 2017 — and ...

A species of moth drinks tears from the eyes of sleeping birds using a fearsome proboscis shaped like a harpoon, scientists have revealed. The new discovery – spied in Madagascar – is the first time ...

When animals cry, moths start licking their chops. The less glamorous relatives of butterflies have been known to use their long proboscis to sip the tears of everything from birds to reptiles to even ...

A researcher captured rare video of a moth in the Amazon drinking tears from a sleeping bird’s eye, which the insect likely does to get nutrients like sodium and protein, according to a new report in ...