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submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago (1 children)

looks at user name

Sounds like something a BIRD would say!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Squaaawk, you got me!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 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".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Maybe they're tree scarecrows to keep bugs away

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sir, I believe those would be scarebugs.

[–] Old_Fat_White_Guy 2 points 8 months ago

If they keep bugs away then I'll take a dozen.