Understanding Sex (5 of 23)

You have got to change, because there are changes in climate...
...changes in rainfall, changes because of volcanoes, changes because of new kinds of organisms.
And in order to be in this melange of all these constantly changing things, you are going to have to change yourself.
And the only way to do that is through sex.
But plants have roots.
They can not move around much, so for there to be sex in the flower bed, plants had to find a go-between to exchange their genes.
The secret to successful sex is attraction.
Oh! Look, people.
How do you like that marvelous plant? That is a Dutchman's pipe.

Now let me tell you how this works.
This is a classic example of plants that have weird pollination mechanisms.
See the color? That chocolate color attracts flies.
And the flies go there and say, ''Good God! That wonderful thing there looks like something to eat.
I could lay my eggs there and have baby grubs growing in it.'' So what they do is they go down inside.
And in there are the sex organs.
Now the only bad news is that they have hairs down here.
These hairs are all pointing downward.
And he can not get out.
And he flies around madly in there and he gets all covered with pollen and then at a given moment, and only the flower knows when that is, the hairs all shrivel, and he flies up, all covered with pollen.