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.
I don't think photoshop is needed to find the right flowers and photograph at the right angle.
"Appear to look like"...
I wonder what they look like if you manage to ignore the appearances.
"..how birds look like.."
Just one of many issues with the English here.
You need to pick a lane.
I typically assume it's a non-native speaker with things like this, but I'm not sure in this case.
Did you understand what was being communicated? Yes? Congratulations!
Because, really, that's generally all that's necessary.
MY PARSER BROKEI'd read this with commas around 'like', rather than with a period after it: "... how birds look, like, I'm afraid" works as a sentence while "... how birds look like. I'm afraid" is both wrong, like you point out, but also sounds much more serious than the jokey tone I'd expect from a message without punctuation and capitalization
Animals are something plants invented to help spread their seeds around.
Know what's wild? For millions of years nothing around ate trees, so when a tree grew and died and fell it was permanently there because there was no rot. Which is how we got petrified forests.
From my readings, I don't think this is the case. Lignin degradation evolved rapidly with terrestrial plants. Coal and petrified wood is more due to geological events and swamps for example. Evolving ligninases is trivial for bacteria and fungi.
Life in general is most likely something the universe invented to speed up entropy.
Life is a natural part of entropy for sure.
Why do plants know how birds look
The potatoes told them. (Potatoes have eyes)
Why are people so unfathomably dumb, like, I'm afraid.
Yeah, some people can't even recognize a joke.
Right, anytime anyone fucks up it's sarcasm, anytime anyone is dumb, it's a joke, nothing is real, everything is a cake.
Irony poisoning
That sounds serious
Fe-real
i like cake
“Science memes”
Are you trying to suggest that your use of punctuation is sarcastic?
People don't get the timescale of an evolutionary feature like this. And how long it was only kinda bird like.
Intuitively understanstanding evolution is something most people dont need so i cant really fault people for it. But yeah either trolling or actually stupid who knows.
I do wish that the personification of evolution wasn't such a thing. People so often attribute reasoning or intention to the process, when there is no such thing.
Wait until they advance and start thinking about things like, how did plants find out what bees like to eat. This will spook them to mind-blown town.
Intuitively understanstanding evolution is something most people dont need so i cant really fault people for it.
LOL, how meta ("people haven't evolved to understand evolution").
There are a lot of weird flowers out there
Evolution is wonderfull
My aunt had one of these but she watered it too much and it drowned. lmao
Annihilation vibes
I rewatched Annihilation recently. That fucking bear scene still haunts me. Great film.
droning sounds intensify
Doesn't this imply that the flower is polinated by bird cocks. Think about it a bird fucks one flower or starts to before realizing, and then later he fucks annother flower thus spreading the pollen of the first flower.
No, it just implies that it was adaptive to look like a bird.
It could be for any number of reasons, including because aliens exist and years ago they were like "let's screw up all the plants in this area for generations" until the leader's kid saw one that kind of looked like little birds and threw themselves in front of it and said "wait, no, spare this one."
How do you know it's not a bird trying to look like a plant? Y'know to evade predators and all...
Does this fuckwit know what punctuation is?
Still looks like a fake
There are plants that cam see, so you are rightly afraid.
Looks fake as hell. I'd be more afraid of falling for stuff like this. Cute as a Photoshop challenge though
I thought you were being too cynical because plenty of plants evolved this technique but then I realized because of AI I have absolutely no idea if they're real or not, unless I spend time that I don't have on researching it.
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This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.