• HandMadeArtisanRobot@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    The most amazing thing about this is that the plant has never seen a hummingbird.

    Think about it. The plant has no eyes nor the ability to change its own leaves. What must have happened? Maybe an ancestor had leaves that randomly, vaguely resembled a bird? Perhaps the descendants that happened to look more like hummingbirds were then pollinated more often than the rest?

    Nature is so fucking crazy and I love it.

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      9 months ago

      The plant has no eyes nor the ability to change its own leaves.

      You should probably google Boquila trifoliolata.

      But yes, it’s impressive if it never met anything that looks like a hummingbird.