The curious tendency of decaying grape leaves to resemble birds, noted on recent morning walks

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5 Comments

  1. Sheldon Kotyk
    Posted October 30, 2006 at 4:46 am | Permalink

    Very interesting. I wonder if that is some sort of defensive mechanism against worms?

  2. Ryan
    Posted October 31, 2006 at 7:29 am | Permalink

    It would be interesting to find out if there is an advantage to this “behaviour”.

    Perhaps as suggested above, there was/is a selection pressure in favour of trees that’s leaves curl in this particular way.

  3. Matt
    Posted November 2, 2006 at 12:09 pm | Permalink

    Wouldn’t it be more likely that birds camouflage amongst leaves?

  4. Gord
    Posted November 2, 2006 at 2:58 pm | Permalink

    Great eye!

  5. Ryan
    Posted November 7, 2006 at 5:52 am | Permalink

    I was thinking it’s more likely coincidence.

    But if trees with bird shape leaves attract more birds (so the birds can hide) this might be a selection pressure in favour of bird shaped leaves, as more birds might lead to more seeds being dispersed.


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