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.
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
“Appear to look like”…
I wonder what they look like if you manage to ignore the appearances.
My guess would be Yulan magnolia blossoms.
#BirdsArentReal
Please tell me there is a lemmy community for this
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There are a lot of weird flowers out there
Evolution is wonderfull
The lizard vine is a fake
The fruit is, but not the plant, scientific name: Tetrastigma voinieranum, common names: Chestnut Vine, Lizard Vine, Wild Grape
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.”
Plus the first flower might feel a bit jealous if it finds out
Most flighted birds don’t actually have functional penis (ducks are a notable exception). Both the males and females reproduce through their cloaca.
How do you know it’s not a bird trying to look like a plant? Y’know to evade predators and all…
What’s if it’s a bird-plant pretending to look like one of those plant-birds
Still looks like a fake
Looks fake as hell. I’d be more afraid of falling for stuff like this. Cute as a Photoshop challenge though
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
“Science memes”
People don’t get the timescale of an evolutionary feature like this. And how long it was only kinda bird like.
