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minus-squarexkforce@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up102arrow-down5·2 years agoThey 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.
minus-squareorphiebaby@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up49arrow-down5·2 years agoWhat’s funny is how absurd this is. Most flowers don’t look like birds and they’re fine.
minus-squareHawk@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31arrow-down1·2 years agoThis 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.
minus-squarevzq@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35·2 years agolooks at user name Sounds like something a BIRD would say!
minus-squareorphiebaby@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·2 years agoI don’t think photoshop is needed to find the right flowers and photograph at the right angle.
minus-squareZink@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·2 years agoIt’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.
minus-squareorphiebaby@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·2 years ago…But birds pollinate flowers. How is a bird not landing on this (particular, too) flower going to help it survive?
minus-squarefuckingkangaroos@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 years agoMaybe they’re tree scarecrows to keep bugs away
minus-squareoce 🐆@jlai.lulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 years agoSir, I believe those would be scarebugs.
minus-squareOld_Fat_White_Guy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoIf they keep bugs away then I’ll take a dozen.
minus-squareExocrinous@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·2 years agoRight, but what about the mimic plant? It mimicks whatever plant is near it. And it can mimic plastic plants. https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/2022/11/30/23473062/plant-mimicry-boquila-trifoliolata
minus-squareryannathans@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 years agoShould be a pretty trivial experiment to replicate
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.
What’s funny is how absurd this is. Most flowers don’t look like birds and they’re fine.
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.
looks at user name
Sounds like something a BIRD would say!
Squaaawk, you got me!
I don’t think photoshop is needed to find the right flowers and photograph at the right angle.
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.
…But birds pollinate flowers. How is a bird not landing on this (particular, too) flower going to help it survive?
Maybe they’re tree scarecrows to keep bugs away
Sir, I believe those would be scarebugs.
If they keep bugs away then I’ll take a dozen.
Right, but what about the mimic plant? It mimicks whatever plant is near it. And it can mimic plastic plants. https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/2022/11/30/23473062/plant-mimicry-boquila-trifoliolata
Should be a pretty trivial experiment to replicate