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Discoveries Raise New Questions "These tag recoveries are exciting," says Dr. Karen Oberhauser. "It would be interesting to speculate about the reasons that some butterflies go southeast and others go northwest from the same location." Arizona researcher Gail Morris, wonders if the wind affected where the tagged monarchs traveled. She's looking back at wind maps to see which way the wind was blowing at the time the tagged monarchs were released.