Biomimicry

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• xkforce@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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  • orphiebaby@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What’s funny is how absurd this is. Most flowers don’t look like birds and they’re fine.

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    • Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨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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    • Zink@pawb.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨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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  • exocrinous@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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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    • ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Should be a pretty trivial experiment to replicate

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• marcos@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Appear to look like”…

  I wonder what they look like if you manage to ignore the appearances.

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  • Big_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My guess would be Yulan magnolia blossoms.

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• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “…how birds look like…”

  Just one of many issues with the English here.

  • what it looks like
  • how it looks

  You need to pick a lane.

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  • Squirrel@thelemmy.club ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I typically assume it’s a non-native speaker with things like this, but I’m not sure in this case.

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    • Old_Fat_White_Guy@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I too try to give the benefit of the doubt when reading stilted text that basically conveys the meaning but the syntax is janky.

      I’m in southern Ohio so there are quite a few people from the hills and hollers around here.

      Methany definitely talks exactly like how that is.

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  • PunnyName@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Did you understand what was being communicated? Yes? Congratulations!

    Because, really, that’s generally all that’s necessary.

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    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

       MY PARSER BROKE
      

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  • cinnamonTea@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’d read this with commas around ‘like’, rather than with a period after it: “… how birds look, like, I’m afraid” works as a sentence while “… how birds look like. I’m afraid” is both wrong, Luke you point out, but also sounds much more serious than the jokey tone I’d expect from a message without punctuation and capitalization

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    • AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We will never know what the tweet author intended lol

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  • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No one cares mate.

    It’s fine to correct the grammar of children in your care, but not really in other circumstances.

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  • A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Multi-track drifting

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  • HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No they’re asking how do birds look like the way they do. In which case the answer is that a bird’s body evolved to be streamlined and lightweight in order to fly more efficiently.

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• JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Animals are something plants invented to help spread their seeds around.

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  • Tylix@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Know what’s wild? For millions of years nothing around ate trees, so when a tree grew and died and fell it was permanently there because there was no rot. Which is how we got petrified forests.

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    • bananabenana@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      From my readings, I don’t think this is the case. Lignin degradation evolved rapidly with terrestrial plants. Coal and petrified wood is more due to geological events and swamps for example. Evolving ligninases is trivial for bacteria and fungi.

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    • lorty@lemmygrad.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Isn’t that more because of the lack of fungi that could break down wood?

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  • Neil@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Life in general is most likely something the universe invented to speed up entropy.

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    • systemglitch@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Life is a natural part of entropy for sure.

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    • oce@jlai.lu ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There’s a nice theory about how it looks like the goal is actually to produce photons more efficiently.

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• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  #BirdsArentReal

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  • kender242@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Please tell me there is a lemmy community for this

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    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      birdsarentreal@lemmy.world exists

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The potatoes told them. (Potatoes have eyes)

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  • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is brilliant, thanks

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• therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  More evidence birds aren’t real

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  • AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The evidence is building, I can no longer deny

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• Zerush@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There are a lot of weird flowers out there

  Image Image Image Image Image

  Evolution is wonderfull

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  • MaryReadsBooks@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The lizard vine is a fake

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    • Zerush@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The fruit is, but not the plant, scientific name: Tetrastigma voinieranum, common names: Chestnut Vine, Lizard Vine, Wild Grape

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  • OozingPositron@feddit.cl ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Image

    My aunt had one of these but she watered it too much and it drowned. lmao

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• 7heo@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why are people so unfathomably dumb, like I’m afraid.

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  • Floey@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, some people can’t even recognize a joke.

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    • 7heo@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Right, anytime anyone fucks up it’s sarcasm, anytime anyone is dumb, it’s a joke, nothing is real, everything is a cake.

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  • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    People don’t get the timescale of a evolutionary feature like this. And how long it was only kinda bird like.

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  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Intuitively understanstanding evolution is something most people dont need so i cant really fault people for it. But yeah either trolling or actually stupid who knows.

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    • pooberbee@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I do wish that the personification of evolution wasn’t such a thing. People so often attribute reasoning or intention to the process, when there is no such thing.

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Intuitively understanstanding evolution is something most people dont need so i cant really fault people for it.

      LOL, how meta (“people haven’t evolved to understand evolution”).

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• synae@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Annihilation vibes

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  • PunnyName@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I rewatched Annihilation recently. That fucking bear scene still haunts me. Great film.

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    • FarFarAway@startrek.website ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you’re into books, it’s also the first book in the Southern Reach Trilogy. The movie was good, but the books really flesh out the situation. I was sad they didn’t continue the movies with the rest of the books.

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    • Amanduh@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Just looked it up and it seems like a movie me and my wife would love. I’m surprised I’ve never seen or heard of it… do you have any more movie recs?

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  • potustheplant@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    droning sounds intensify

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• Poogona@hexbear.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That question below is honestly a good way to demonstrate how poor people can be at understanding what would be called materialism without it being explained to them first

  Easy to assume the shape of that flower is due to decisions made by the plant itself instead of the more accurate way of understanding its shape being the result of external conditions and pressures acting upon the plant and its flower growth over a long time

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  • Texas_Hangover@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What the fuck does that have to do with materialism?

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• Microplasticbrain@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Doesn’t this imply that the flower is polinated by bird cocks. Think about it a bird fucks one flower or starts to before realizing, and then later he fucks annother flower thus spreading the pollen of the first flower.

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  • kromem@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No, it just implies that it was adaptive to look like a bird.

    It could be because aliens exist and years ago they were like “let’s screw up all the plants in this area for generations” until the leader’s kid saw one that kind of looked like little birds and threw themselves in front of it and said “wait, no, spare this one.”

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  • OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Most flighted birds don’t actually have functional penis (ducks are a notable exception). Both the males and females reproduce through their cloaca.

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  • fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Plus the first flower might feel a bit jealous if it finds out

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• ChowJeeBai@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How do you know it’s not a bird trying to look like a plant? Y’know to evade predators and all…

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  • fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What’s if it’s a bird-plant pretending to look like one of those plant-birds

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• maculata@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Does this fuckwit know what punctuation is?

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• mvirts@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Theyre watching us the-scientist.com/can-plants-see-in-the-wake-of-a…

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• Gladaed@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There are plants that cam see, so you are rightly afraid.

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• humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Still looks like a fake

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• Bobmighty@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Looks fake as hell. I’d be more afraid of falling for stuff like this. Cute as a Photoshop challenge though

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  • Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I thought you were being too cynical because plenty of plants evolved this technique but then I realized because of AI I have absolutely no idea if they’re real or not, unless I spend time that I don’t have on researching it.

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    • Bobmighty@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Seems like it’s a touched up fake. The white duck head one is especially obvious. …stackexchange.com/…/does-the-yulan-magnolia-flow…

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• Hestia@hexbear.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  When a bird and a flower love each other very much…

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