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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (12 children)

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.

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

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Should be a pretty trivial experiment to replicate

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