How do monarch butterflies travel so far?

Published: Sept. 9, 2014, 5:03 p.m.

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Monarch butterflies are unique \\u2014 they\\u2019re the only butterfly to travel thousands of miles when the seasons change. They travel from as far north as Canada all the way down to a few very specific mountaintops in central Mexico.


They don\\u2019t have a car, or an airplane ticket. They just have their two little wings. So we\\u2019re asking: How do they do it? How do they migrate thousands of miles? And why?

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