Looking Like Dried Grass Is For Losers

Looking Like Dried Grass Is For Losers
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Evolution really said "survive but make it fashion." These maple seeds and rosy maple moth are basically nature's runway models. Natural selection typically favors camouflage that helps species avoid predation, but sometimes it throws in some fabulousness for free. That moth didn't need to be pink and yellow - could've just been brown like 99% of moths - but it chose the evolutionary equivalent of saying "eat me if you can find me, but you'll be eliminating the most stylish thing in this forest." Classic risk-reward scenario we see in adaptive radiation studies, except with more sass.

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