Taxacom: Butterflies flying from Africa to South America

[Kenneth Kinman]

Les Watling wrote this paragraph:
     "I think an interesting case in point was the news story a month or so ago
of West African butterflies arriving en masse on the eastern coast of S
America. I don't remember the exact details, but it seemed a large number
of butterflies had been swept across the Atlantic.... so a dispersal event
for that species is possible if they survive in the new location. My point
is that a dispersal event may be improbable in many cases, but here you
have direct evidence of its possibility."
      This news story appears in Smithsonian Magazine (weblink below).
Yet another improbable dispersal event, even today when Africa and South America
are much further apart than in the past (when they were a lot closer to each other).
And such improbable dispersal events are more probable when they have millions
of years to happen (even very improbable rafting events).  .
             -------------Ken Kinman
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