Australian Butterfly Sanctuary
Netted rainforest aviary breeding free-flying butterflies from eggs collected each morning.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Australian Butterfly Sanctuary in Kuranda follows the daily race behind its rainforest aviary, where the country's largest butterfly lives for only a matter of weeks. You will hear how the sanctuary keeps the exhibit stocked entirely from eggs gathered each morning rather than wild capture, and what that demands from the people who run it. Along the way it pauses on the Ulysses butterfly, whose electric blue wings vanish the instant it lands. Watch for that flash of blue moving through the canopy above you.
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