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Listen to Millions of Monarch Butterflies Make One of the Rarest Sounds on Earth: 'Just like a waterfall'

Listen to Millions of Monarch Butterflies Make One of the Rarest Sounds on Earth: 'Just like a waterfall'
Phil Torres of The Jungle Diaries has recorded the sounds of a million or more butterflies fluttering in the Mexican rainforest.

Monarch butterflies, fluttering in their millions on 3,000-mile journeys, as luminous as stained glass. Seeing them mass migrate is one of the world's great spectacles. But what about hearing them?

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

The resulting waterfall-like sound is, quite simply, a wonder.

(LISTEN to the video below.)

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