Picture shot in Michoacán, Mexico in 2007.
Large numbers of monarch butterflies gather in quiet parts of the mountain forest to drink. Occasionally there are so many of them that in the most popular places they have to sit on top of each other. With the water they also take up essential minerals.
About the series "Animal Masses"
Why do animals collect in masses? This question is at the heart of Ingo Arndt's project dealing with these ANIMAL MASSES. Every year, millions upon millions of animals gather together all over the world. They collect in groups in order to spend the winter together, to mate, to migrate in a community or to occupy new habitats. The greatest animal spectacles our planet has to offer, take place where animals collect into masses. In ANIMAL MASSES, Ingo Arndt presents the subject of animal gatherings in a complexity that has never been shown before.
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