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We don't know what bumps and trauma this tree went through as it grew, but the result is a cute bunny rabbit. Pareidolia is the human tendency to see faces in things that aren't faces. We are programmed to respond to facial expressions because they convey important information. So anything we see with two eyes tends to look like a face. Bonus if there's a line for a mouth. But pareidolia is not limited to faces- it pertains to any familiar shape we can recognize in something that's not that at all, like the blobs in a pet's fur coloring that look like a heart or brand logo. Even sprouting plants can have a recognizable shape, like a mother Groot instructing her Baby Groot.
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A Facebook group called Things With Faces collects examples to share. See a roundup of 30 of their best images ranked at Bored Panda.