The wrinkled eye of an elephant looks like bark on a tree. The rhomboid pattern on a giraffe looks like cracked, dry earth. A sunset flames like a bright red flower. A desiccated tree root is shaped like a wind-dried skull, the colours and shapes on the shell of a slow-moving tortoise are like those on a graceful giraffe and the speckles on three crowned lapwing eggs are similar to guinea fowl polka dots.
Nature recycles her good ideas.