| Title |
Please, more tears: a case of a moth feeding on antbird tears in central Amazonia
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Ecology, January 2019
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| DOI | 10.1002/ecy.2518 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Leandro João Carneiro de Lima Moraes |
| Abstract |
The vertebrate tear-feeding (lachryphagy) on birds by moths is a rarely documented event, with only two known records from Madagascar (Hilgartner et al. 2007) and Colombia (Sazima 2015). In these events, the moths insert their morphologically adapted proboscis (Zaspel et al. 2011) on the target species' ocular area to feed on their tears (Hilgartner et al. 2007, Zenker et al. 2011). Although one currently known moth is an obligatory lachryphagous species (Waage 1979), most of them feed on tears as a supplementary method to obtain nutrients, mainly sodium and proteins (Plotkin and Goddard 2013). This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| United States | 116 | 32% |
| India | 14 | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 14 | 4% |
| Canada | 13 | 4% |
| France | 6 | 2% |
| Australia | 4 | 1% |
| Ireland | 3 | <1% |
| Germany | 3 | <1% |
| Russia | 2 | <1% |
| Other | 22 | 6% |
| Unknown | 161 | 45% |
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| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 328 | 92% |
| Scientists | 19 | 5% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 8 | 2% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 3 | <1% |
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| Unknown | 15 | 100% |
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| Other | 3 | 20% |
| Professor | 2 | 13% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 2 | 13% |
| Student > Master | 2 | 13% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 1 | 7% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 5 | 33% |
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| Environmental Science | 3 | 20% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 2 | 13% |
| Computer Science | 1 | 7% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 1 | 7% |
| Engineering | 1 | 7% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 7 | 47% |
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