How do butterflies keep from getting dizzy?

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Almost every butterfly I see bobs up and down while they fly. Do they have the same fluid system for balance that we do? How do they navigate the world and what is their system for balance?

Edit: SOLVED by: u/jsonnen

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I assume their “brain” already understands that default motion and corrects for it.

I’m basing this on pigeons, and how they bob their heads forward and back dramatically when they walk. scientists did an experiment where they put a pigeon on wheels, and it’s perceptions got all messed up because it was expecting that forward-back swing.

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