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nature is fucking lit

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The flowers of the Crotalaria cunninghamii plant resemble tiny hummingbirds (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How does the plant know what hummingbirds looks like?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It doesn't! It evolved this way through natural selection over eons

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's the benefit here? attracts more hummings to polinate? Or keeps worms away?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No idea! It's important not to ascribe purpose or intent to beneficial but random mutations. It must do something. Like you're saying, more pollinators or scare away pests etc. Somehow it is evolutionarily beneficial for reproducing with the additional benefit of being sick af

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

This is wild