I went to a butterfly exhibit at the natural history museum today. It was super humid inside to replicate the?
Monday, February 9th, 2009
seoreh asked:
replicate the environment of a rainforest. My question is why doesn’t the condensation have any effect on their paper thin ( or thinner than paper?) wings? I asked a volunteer who worked there and he acted like a was a moron, he just said’ well they are indigenous to the rainforest so the heat and humidity doesn’t effect them the same way it does us” okay , but WHY? it would seem it would makes their wings heavy and laden down but it doesn’t.
Lorraine
replicate the environment of a rainforest. My question is why doesn’t the condensation have any effect on their paper thin ( or thinner than paper?) wings? I asked a volunteer who worked there and he acted like a was a moron, he just said’ well they are indigenous to the rainforest so the heat and humidity doesn’t effect them the same way it does us” okay , but WHY? it would seem it would makes their wings heavy and laden down but it doesn’t.
Lorraine