Butterflies Make One of the Rarest Sounds on Earth: ‘Just like a waterfall’

Millions of monarch butterflies flutter on 3,000-mile journeys, as bright as stained glass. Seeing them migrate en masse is one of the great spectacles of the world. But what about listening to them?

Phil Torres from YouTube channel The Jungle Diaries has recorded the sounds of millions of endangered monarchs as they heat up and then flap their glowing wings along the branches, leaves, and trunks of trees in the Mexican rainforest.

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The resulting waterfall sound is simply wonderful.

(LISTENS to the video below.)

FLUTTER These impressive sounds are transmitted to others …