• xkforce@lemmy.world
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    8 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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      8 months ago

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

      • Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        8 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.