a nish long gone

lachryphagy is the term used to describe the behaviour of tear drinking in nature, typically in environments - like the purvian amazon shown here - where sodium and other micronutrients are hard to find. 

bees and butterflies need sodium for egg production and metabolic purposes, but their diets of nectar are low in salt. so the orange julia and sulfur yellow butterflies you see here turn to the salty tears of often stationary turtles and caiman. 

The peoples of Siberia (Ulchi, Dolgan, Sakha, Evenki) photographer Alexander Khimushin

Worth a try

The devil on the shoulder, the monster on my back

Got my zombie horse covered up with a bad ass eagle..

By the amazing mr Lee Pound

It’s just like this:

I’ve seen similar points be raised about skeletal reconstructions for hippos if we use that same logic