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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.
103 5 ReplyWhat's funny is how absurd this is. Most flowers don't look like birds and they're fine.
49 5 ReplyThis 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.
31 1 Replylooks at user name
Sounds like something a BIRD would say!
35 0 ReplySquaaawk, you got me!
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I don't think photoshop is needed to find the right flowers and photograph at the right angle.
3 2 ReplyWow 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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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.
17 0 Reply...But birds pollinate flowers. How is a bird not landing on this (particular, too) flower going to help it survive?
2 2 ReplyMaybe they're tree scarecrows to keep bugs away
7 0 ReplySir, I believe those would be scarebugs.
6 0 ReplyIf they keep bugs away then I'll take a dozen.
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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
13 0 ReplyShould be a pretty trivial experiment to replicate
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