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minus-squareorphiebabylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up49arrow-down5·8 months 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-down1·8 months 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-up35·8 months agolooks at user name Sounds like something a BIRD would say!
minus-squareorphiebabylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·8 months agoI don’t think photoshop is needed to find the right flowers and photograph at the right angle.
minus-squarefine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoWow 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”.
minus-squareZink@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·8 months 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-squareorphiebabylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·8 months ago…But birds pollinate flowers. How is a bird not landing on this (particular, too) flower going to help it survive?
minus-squarefuckingkangarooslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·8 months agoMaybe they’re tree scarecrows to keep bugs away
minus-squareoce 🐆@jlai.lulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·8 months agoSir, I believe those would be scarebugs.
minus-squareOld_Fat_White_Guy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 months agoIf they keep bugs away then I’ll take a dozen.
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.
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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.
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”.
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.