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Fun fact, Red Admirals prefer eating actual poop to drinking flower nectar.

And, because it's Friday, an unrelated story.

Did you know that Red Admiral butterflies like New York asters and...butterfly bushes?

It's possible there are ten times the normal number of Red Admirals flying around right now.

The adorable baby Baringo giraffe at the Bronx Zoo was enjoying the fine weather this past weekend. Watch her walking around the African Plains exhibit—and, at 42 seconds in, discover a butterfly!