Photographer Captures the Shot of a Lifetime Consisting of a Caiman With a Crown of Butterflies

Photographer Mark Cowman is the man who witnessed one of the rarest sights while exploring outdoors. He was traveling down the Amazon, studying reptile and amphibian diversity with the Herpetology Division at the University of Michigan. What seemed like an ordinary day exploring, ended up surprising the photographer, which captured the shot of a lifetime.

This shot consists of a caiman with an adorable crown of colorful butterflies on its head. This is not something that we get to see on daily basis. Moreover, one might think of the reason behind this occurrence. As it turns out, biologically butterflies need salt to survive. They get that here from the minerals that gather on the caiman’s skin. On the other hand, the caiman doesn’t benefit anything from this relationship.

However, the calm expression in which the photographer managed to capture him, shows that he doesn’t mind this attention.

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Cowan’s Butterflies and Caiman received a category on the 2016 Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition. The Special Commendation in the Ecology and Environmental Science Category was due to the unique organization of the butterflies. Scroll down below to see the adorable images yourself, and let us know in the comments what you think of these adorable shots.

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Each parent has a different parenting style. With each parenting style comes a different way of showing a misbehaving child their wrongdoing, along with a different way of correcting such wrongdoings.

This father had a very terrible daughter. In his post in the Am I The A-Hole subreddit, he began by describing his daughter as someone who had a bad attitude and barely made it through high school. This is in contrast with her younger sister, who was the cream of the crop. To reward the younger, he thought of taking her on a fully-paid vacation. When the older heard of it, she wanted to come but agreed that she would pay her expenses. Come the day of the trip, the older hadn’t paid for her trip yet because she assumed that her father would vouch for her. Follow the full story below!

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This father is asking if he was wrong for not fully paying for her daughter’s vacation




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The father received split reactions from those who believed he did nothing wrong and those who believed he practiced favoritism.









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