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I think it's so adorable that early humans took wild gourds - a tiny fruit that hollows out as it dries, making it float - and decided to make something out of it

a wild Buffalo Gourd. the small, yellow fruit is compared to a USA quarter coin. they are almost the same diameterALT

they thought the tiny fruit was so good that they bred it for thousands of years, making it larger to form into bowls and cups, and different shapes to become bottles and spoons

dozens of products made from carved, dried gourds of various sizes. bowls and water pitchers make up most of the itemsALT
similar to the previous image, with many bowls made from gourds. there are also spoons made from long handled gourdsALT

and musical instruments

various drums of different sizes made out of gourds with the tops and bottoms of the fruit cut off, leaving behind a cylinder shape. a membrane tied over one side to make it into a drumALT
a small gourd with a beaded lattice of shells around the exterior, made so that one can hold the handle of the gourd and shake it to produce a musical beatALT
a series of images showing the process of turning a very large gourd into a Mandolin, a stringed instrumentALT

And then, people took the hollow gourds they farmed, and they turned them into houses for birds. We adapted them into the perfect houses for birds, and now there are specific breeds of birdhouse gourd just for making into birdhouses

six birdhouses made of gourds, each of them painted and decorated with different brightly colored designsALT
natural colored birdhouse gourds hanging from wooden posts. the gourds are roughly the same size, but are various different shapes. it is winter and there is a light dusting of snow over everything in the imageALT

And humans dedicated gardening space and time and thousands of years of breeding to make the gourds so absolutely perfect for birds, that there is a species of bird that lives almost exclusively in them

a vintage print of Purple Martins. there are four birds, drawn in a way to show off their dark indigo plumage and white bellies. one bird is hanging off of the entrance of a birdhouse gourd. another is standing on top of it. the other two are in the tree branch which the gourd is hanging off of.ALT
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