Right, but what about the mimic plant? It mimicks whatever plant is near it. And it can mimic plastic plants. www.vox.com/…/plant-mimicry-boquila-trifoliolata
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xkforce@lemmy.world 3 months ago
They dont. It just happens that natural selection favored flowers that looked vaguely bird like and over time, flowers that looked more and more like a bird outcompeted the ones that looked less like one.
exocrinous@lemm.ee 3 months ago
ryannathans@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Should be a pretty trivial experiment to replicate
orphiebaby@lemm.ee 3 months ago
What’s funny is how absurd this is. Most flowers don’t look like birds and they’re fine.
Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
This has nothing to do with natural selection. It’s just a coincidence that the buds very shortly and from a specific angle vaguely look like birds.
Most of the images shared are probably photoshopped to enhance the effect too.
vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
looks at user name
Sounds like something a BIRD would say!
Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Squaaawk, you got me!
orphiebaby@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I don’t think photoshop is needed to find the right flowers and photograph at the right angle.
fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
Wow you’re right.
It’s more like “look at this blossom that looks a bit like a bird” rather than “look at this type of tree that makes bird-like blossoms”.
Zink@pawb.social 3 months ago
It’s about tiny percents.
A bird will land on a flower.
A bird will not land on a bird.
So every one in a million time a bird mistakes a flower for a bird, that’s a flower that survives.
All you have to do is wait a couple million years for the odds to turn in the bird flower’s favor.
orphiebaby@lemm.ee 3 months ago
…But birds pollinate flowers. How is a bird not landing on this (particular, too) flower going to help it survive?
fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Maybe they’re tree scarecrows to keep bugs away