Orchids “Pretend” to be Mushrooms | On Assignment

how far would you go to reproduce would
you disguise yourself as someone else
I’m Lucy McNeil and this is National
Geographic on assignment you’re linked
to thousands of NatGeo expeditions
around the globe today we’re off to the
cloud forests of northeast and Ecuador
when national Geographics busy Roy
studies orchid species that look and
smell like nearby mushrooms Nature has
its impostors like the milk snake
posing as the deadly coral snake and
even plants are made to mimic other
species busy thinks the mimicking orcas
are trying to attract a particular fly
which helps the plants pollinate these
flies usually attracted to the mushrooms
help spread the orchids pollen there by
aiding reproduction orchid are plentiful
here so the bakery is paying off bats
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