• orphiebaby@lemm.eeEnglish
    495·
    10 months ago

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

    • Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      311·
      10 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.

      • orphiebaby@lemm.eeEnglish
        32·
        10 months ago

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

      • fine_sandy_bottomEnglish
        1·
        10 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”.

    • Zink@pawb.socialEnglish
      17·
      10 months ago

      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.