Here is how stupid thoughts are made: I read a post by my friend Michael Kapovich about succulents that evolution made look like stones to avoid animals that might feed on them.

My first thought was: those are just colorful, beautiful butts.

My second thought: It makes me actually wonder: from a human perspective, we immediately recognize the symmetry and see that this is not a stone. To be evolutionarily effective, that must mean that animals, for the most part, may not recognize symmetry. Antisymmetry must not have an advantage when it comes to camouflage. Which led me to find out that symmetry and its recognition is barely understood in either way, but that I may also be stupid because in real life these plants may look less symmetric. Still, maybe there is something about it.

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