How does the plant know what hummingbirds looks like?
this post was submitted on 08 Mar 2024
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It doesn't! It evolved this way through natural selection over eons
What's the benefit here? attracts more hummings to polinate? Or keeps worms away?
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
Or just random coincidence out of millions of different plants and it didn't do anything to harm the plant from spreading.
that's evolution baby
Keep worms away? I don't think worms can see birds...
This is wild