I hope I never run into bears in my rural area! I only had seen birds, coyotes, dogs, humans, snakes, butterflies, (w/rabbit)s, horses, bun(nie)s, cat (just one), squirrels, raccoon, etc.

I can imagine this in a horror film. Someone walking down a dark alley. They hear a buzz and turn their head. Nothing. Continue walking, another buzz, this time closer. They look up. Nothing. Turn the corner and and this flying lawnmower comes down the street at 30MPH flipping around like a mechanized butterfly knife!!

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Well, not really. If you're navigating using a compass, then the Mercator projection has the really neat trick of making the rhumb lines straight while keeping coasts recognisable. It's just not a good projection for general purpose uses (unlike the Waterman Butterfly).

I am a beautiful butterfly.

(That was lovely. Thank-you.)

MOTHERFUCKER!

AAAAAAAaaaaaaAAAAAAAaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAA!

Son of a bitch... that gave me butterflies in my scrotum.

Of course some of these morons are going to kill themselves. And just like idiots who pretend to get run over by a car then really get run over by a car, I just don't feel bad for them.

Some *quality flying at 3:50.
Odd to me that they include birds, bees, bats, moths, and butterflies, but leave out flies (unless he mentioned them in the talk, I admit I skipped right to the good stuff). Maybe not as pretty, but flies pollinate many flowers.

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A bright elusive butterfly of love? Just guessin'

What kind of butterfly comes out of a Maru cocoon?

And that's how she got the nickname "Madam Butterfly".

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Bee and Butterfly: "Your tears are delicious."

I just couldn't stay silent any more, I feel like a million butterflies have lifted me up into the sunshine, I AM FREE.

Thanks for the article. It kinda reads like an add for Jennifer Mathers' 'octopuses are smart' book. Her 2008 Consciousness and Cognition paper does a better job at laying out the most cephalopod behaviors impressive behaviors:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053810006001504
. Don't get me wrong; I think cephaolopods totally awesome, but I don't see the case for them being cognitive leaps and bounds above other invertebrates. The behaviors that they are capable of are found elsewhere among inverts, yet people (often encouraged by Mathers or her coauthors on that book) seem to imply they are basically eight armed dogs of the sea:

Behavioral conditioning in the lab (which Mathers likes to call "learning") - Bees, butterflies
Moving objects to close off burrows - mantis shrimp
Carrying objects as temporary refuges - crabs
Individual recognition - wasps, lobsters?, mantis shrimp.
Complex spatial navigation - ants, bees.
Learning via observation - I'm not aware of other inverts that do this, but the cephalopod evidence is also pretty weak.

Maybe there are some more recent, and more convincing results?