Comment on Biomimicry

• Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨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.

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  • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    looks at user name

    Sounds like something a BIRD would say!

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    • Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Squaaawk, you got me!

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  • orphiebaby@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t think photoshop is needed to find the right flowers and photograph at the right angle.

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  • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨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”.

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• Zink@pawb.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨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.

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  • orphiebaby@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    …But birds pollinate flowers. How is a bird not landing on this (particular, too) flower going to help it survive?

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    • fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Maybe they’re tree scarecrows to keep bugs away

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      • oce@jlai.lu ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Sir, I believe those would be scarebugs.

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