This Strange Plant Has Flowers with Petals Shaped Like Hummingbirds

Many commenters associated the flowers' shape with an adaptive evolutionary development. But, as SolitaryBee helpfully pointed out, this couldn't possibly be the case. “The fact that the flower looks like a bird to humans cannot have evolved adaptively because as a signal receiver, there is nothing humans could have done to increase the fitness of individuals that evolved this signal (to look like a bird),” the scientist commented. “Unless indigenous Australians in arid Australia bred or traded the plant because it looks like a bird.”