Science Memes

10809 readers

2269 users here now

Welcome to c/science_memes @ Mander.xyz!

A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.

Rules

Don't throw mud. Behave like an intellectual and remember the human.
Keep it rooted (on topic).
No spam.
Infographics welcome, get schooled.

Research Committee

[email protected]

Other Mander Communities

Science and Research

Biology and Life Sciences

Physical Sciences

Humanities and Social Sciences

Practical and Applied Sciences

Memes

Miscellaneous

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

878

Biomimicry (mander.xyz)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

80 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 97 points 7 months ago (11 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] 44 points 7 months ago (10 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

...But birds pollinate flowers. How is a bird not landing on this (particular, too) flower going to help it survive?

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

Maybe they're tree scarecrows to keep bugs away

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Sir, I believe those would be scarebugs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

If they keep bugs away then I'll take a dozen.

load more comments (8 replies)