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[-] IMNOTCRAZYINSTITUTION@lemmy.world 203 points 2 years ago

By contrast, stressed plants are much noisier, emitting an average up to around 40 clicks per hour depending on the species. And plants deprived of water have a noticeable sound profile. They start clicking more before they show visible signs of dehydrating, escalating as the plant grows more parched, before subsiding as the plant withers away.

someone smarter than me should get to inventing a device that listens to plant clicks and tells you when it needs water

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 82 points 2 years ago

That's actually mentioned as one possible use case further down the article!

[-] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 132 points 2 years ago
[-] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 75 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If you think pigs, chickens and cows have the same level of awareness and perception as broccoli, tomatoes or potatoes than you're the potato.

Humans have to eat and with the exception of a few minerals like salt, everything edible to humans is alive on some level. Vegansisn is making an ethical choice about reducing what causes the most pain fear and suffering in another. If I were to develop cancer, a tape worm or a virus should I also allow those living things to thrive as well or does "Uh, now what?" also apply to antibiotics?

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[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 11 points 2 years ago

Haha as always, you do what you can

[-] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Won't someone think of the plants feelings?!?

[-] heraplem@leminal.space 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

What? The fact that plants physically react to being cut has absolutely no bearing on whether they have conscious experience.

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[-] babybus@sh.itjust.works 82 points 2 years ago

Well, sort of. Not in the same way you or I might scream. Rather, they emit popping or clicking noises in ultrasonic frequencies.

Another "science" community with clickbaity bullshit.

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 43 points 2 years ago

Eh... What? It's an interesting article. The screaming is in quotation marks. So as far as I'm concerned, the title is fine.

[-] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 53 points 2 years ago

Mowing my lawn must be a fucking nightmare for everything involved. ☹️

[-] misterdoctor@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

Imagine if instead of a podcast or audiobook or symphonic power metal you had to listen to the screams of your lawn as you mowed its life short

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 years ago

It gets worse -- that doesn't kill the grass. It just mutilates it.

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[-] superkret@feddit.org 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You know why freshly mown grass smells so nice?
The smell is the grass's defense against grazing animals, as it attracts predators.
It smells nice cause it tells your predator brain there are prey animals you can eat nearby.
So the grass is literally snitching on the animals that are eating it, announcing their presence to their predators.

Evolution is fascinating that way.

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[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 23 points 2 years ago

Hasn't this study been done before? Feel like I've heard of grass "distress signals" from years back

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 9 points 2 years ago

Yes, remember that one as well, but this is a literal sound, not only a "plants communicate stress in some way" (if I remember the previous research correctly).

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[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Nah, the pops and clicks are just plant language for, "I give my consent to be your food. Namaste."

[-] egerlach@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 years ago

I hear the screams of the vegetables (scream, scream, scream)

Watching their skins being peeled (having their insides revealed)

Grated and steamed with no mercy (burning off calories)

How do you think that feels? (bet it hurts really bad)

Carrot juice constitutes murder (V8's genocide)

Greenhouses prisons for slaves (let my vegetables grow)

We have to stop all this gardening (it's dirty as hell)

Let's call a spade a spade (a spade is a spade is a spade is a spade is a...)

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[-] Hackworth@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Remember that Mythbusters (Episode 61 Deadly Straw) that re-created Cleve Backster's primary perception experiments to show plants can sense malicious intent and totally re-created his results? I had to re-watch it to make sure I was remembering correctly. They totally just alter the experiment until they break it, then sweep it under the rug and call it busted. Totally.

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[-] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 8 points 2 years ago

My phone also screams (signals) when someone calls, must mean my phone feels pain I guess.

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