While recovering a tuskless elephant last week, I noticed a couple of butterflies flitting around the carcass. I watched one land on a leg bone and insert it's long proboscis into some meat that remained on the bone. I then noticed a couple more flitting around the area. The butterfly left before I could get my camera but I found another drinking blood another piece of meat. Here is a pic of it.


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I don't know. Not seeing the resemblence.

I think that this guy was just after salts or liquids, but there is in fact a true vampire out there...the Asian vampire moth which actually pierces mammalian skin and drinks blood would you believe!

CHARAXES JASIUS SATURNUS

I seem to remember reading somewhere that butterflies are nothing more than tiny vultures, just prettier.

Tom