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Atmospheric Slapping Tournament (mander.xyz)
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[-] btsax@reddthat.com 8 points 1 week ago

Has no one ever been in a forest before? Trees 100% grow all up into each other all the time. They compete for sunlight and try to choke each other out by design. These pictures honestly don't look real

[-] manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago

It's a thing, not an evident everywhere, the photos look less weird if you zoom in a bit it's mostly thw wide angle lenses imo

interesting reading, if a bit brief, im sure you could find lots of research on this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_shyness

[-] btsax@reddthat.com 7 points 1 week ago

Oh yes, "trees of the same species" is the key piece of missing information in the meme

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