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synchronicity at hyper speed..

Caught these two yellow butterflies chasing each other around in and around the potted plants about as synchronized as they could be, for wing and body position. Just by sheer luck, of course. They fly so fast and so erratically that it's almost impossible to catch them at all, and I'm sure that's the point.

 

If they fluttered too slowly, they would be caught by birds pretty quickly, so they zig and zag, start and stop and circle around like crazy. But even so, one butterfly is able to catch and interact with the other as easily as two tango dancers in the air. What amazing agility and reaction speed!

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Uploaded on January 13, 2019
Taken on January 12, 2019