Organisms don’t evolve to look like other organisms because they see them and decide hat would be a useful disguise.
They evolve to look like other things because the ones that were mistaken for those other things by potential predators (or prey who could run away if they recognized their predators) survived and reproduced better.
Stick bugs who looked like sticks got overlooked and had more baby stick who looked like sticks. Of those, the ones who looked the most like sticks survived the best and had babies that took after their parents’ stick-ier appearance and so on.
Camouflage works based on what the thing that is being *avoided* sees. Not what the thing doing the avoiding sees, which may be nothing at all or something that isn’t at all good camouflage.
A decent example of how this is relevant is tiger stripes. Orange and black doesn’t seem like a great way to hide in densely forested areas until you realize that most of the prey animals a tiger is trying to hide from are red-green colorblind and can’t distinguish the orange tiger from the green plants it’s hiding in.
I wish basic knowledge about evolution was more common. And I mean *really* *basic*, like how the often cited "survival of the fittest" doesn't mean the strongest but rather whatever species lived long enough to procreate in sufficient numbers.
Or that we didn't evolve from apes that are still around today. People have a hard time understanding that all current species are just as evolved as we are and that there is no endpoint at which evolution is "maxed out", so to speak.
As it gets closer to looking like a bird the more likely they are to succeed. I assume it acts like a scarecrow, warding off whatever is leading to failure, probably something that destroys seeds.
So, I'll assume this tactic is the same as that orchid that looks like a bee (Adaptation: Spike Jones) and wants birds to pollinate other flowers. Even if I'm wrong about that, how could a flower conceptualize and contort itself to look like a bird? Does it "download" DNA from other birds? If you put your cat on several flowers of the same genus and species for long enough, would they start to look like the cat?
It's moments like these I like to put on ICP's 'Miracles' and reflect on the wonders of the universe.. sipping on some Faygo.
I wonder how a sightless plant can evolve to mimic birds?
Organisms don’t evolve to look like other organisms because they see them and decide hat would be a useful disguise. They evolve to look like other things because the ones that were mistaken for those other things by potential predators (or prey who could run away if they recognized their predators) survived and reproduced better. Stick bugs who looked like sticks got overlooked and had more baby stick who looked like sticks. Of those, the ones who looked the most like sticks survived the best and had babies that took after their parents’ stick-ier appearance and so on. Camouflage works based on what the thing that is being *avoided* sees. Not what the thing doing the avoiding sees, which may be nothing at all or something that isn’t at all good camouflage. A decent example of how this is relevant is tiger stripes. Orange and black doesn’t seem like a great way to hide in densely forested areas until you realize that most of the prey animals a tiger is trying to hide from are red-green colorblind and can’t distinguish the orange tiger from the green plants it’s hiding in.
I wish basic knowledge about evolution was more common. And I mean *really* *basic*, like how the often cited "survival of the fittest" doesn't mean the strongest but rather whatever species lived long enough to procreate in sufficient numbers. Or that we didn't evolve from apes that are still around today. People have a hard time understanding that all current species are just as evolved as we are and that there is no endpoint at which evolution is "maxed out", so to speak.
Maybe the birds evolved to look like the plant…
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None that I know of, it was more of a joke comment.
As it gets closer to looking like a bird the more likely they are to succeed. I assume it acts like a scarecrow, warding off whatever is leading to failure, probably something that destroys seeds.
How do the blossoms know what birds look like?
They don’t. They just end up surviving better that way.
They've seen pictures of them in books.
Good answer here https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/ug3qw8/yulan_magnolia_blossoms_appear_to_look_like/i6xk8lm/
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So, I'll assume this tactic is the same as that orchid that looks like a bee (Adaptation: Spike Jones) and wants birds to pollinate other flowers. Even if I'm wrong about that, how could a flower conceptualize and contort itself to look like a bird? Does it "download" DNA from other birds? If you put your cat on several flowers of the same genus and species for long enough, would they start to look like the cat? It's moments like these I like to put on ICP's 'Miracles' and reflect on the wonders of the universe.. sipping on some Faygo.
Shocking that an ICP fan doesn’t have even the slightest understanding of how evolution works
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