Doctor Reacts To CREEPY Audio Of Talking Plants!

[BotPiotr]

you know, when we talk, it's just air moving through our wind pipe

[Ziriut]

"Fucking Sharon didn't water me today"
Followed by intense screaming 📢

[TAPa]

I did my masters on trees and tree diseases (physics major, oddly enough)

I am 100% convinced that there are multiple modes of communication between plants of all kinds. Not necessarily conversation or intelligence, but absolutely a flow of information that provokes a response.

Like, if you cut down a tree in a dense forest, it's neighbours will full on redirect sugars from photosynthesis into the stump to keep it alive. They support their neighbours. When some types of plant are wounded and cut, they release things like pheromones that actually prompt nearby plants to rush produce bitter flavours for self-defence.

To call it talking is a bit much, and again I don't propose that there is any intelligence or information processing driving decisions rather than being built-in reflexes, but at this point I'd laugh at someone who would claim that plants cannot communicate at all

[JoNDOE]

The world would be so noisy if we were able to hear the entire spectrum of sound frequencies.

[drowningnixis]

I wish I could hear it. Might help me water the veggies on time!

[shainazion]

Bugs attack sick plants, they can hear the sounds. The book, *_The Secret Life of Plants_* was written over 50 years ago.

[VentiVonOsterreich]

Plants emitting sounds during distress may be the reason why some animals are able to feel an incoming Earthquake before we do

[DNGRKTY]

I would like to sincerely apologize to all of the houseplants I have murdered. 🥺

[noahtheeditor]

Acacia trees do something similar:

When a giraffe starts chewing acacia leaves, the injured tree emits a distress signal using ethylene gas. Neighboring acacia trees pick up on this and begin pumping tannins into their leaves. When consumed in large quantities, these tannins can sicken or even kill giraffes

[theblackbaron]

Damn my tomatoes won't shut up now. They keep telling me that they want to go back to outer space.

[skyeharvest]

Adds a whole new meaning to the quote "The trees cry out as they die, but you cannot hear them..." -Moro 🐺 (Princess Mononoke). 😭😭😭

[keyboardwarrior]

It reminds me of the "fish can't feel pain" argument

"Yes, they respond to being injured, seem distressed, and make efforts to escape the sensation... but that doesn't mean it's pain!!!"

"Yes, they can talk to each other, make sounds of distress, act defensively based on that communication, and redirect resources to trees that need help....but thet doesn't mean they can communicate or feel pain"

[breadleymcthicc]

I did a study back in middle school with a friend. We had 5 plants, and we'd talk to each one with different attitudes as it was growing.
Now, I was poor, and 5 plants is not a sample size worth anything, but...
When we were nice to the one plant, it grew like twice as fast.

[stingky]

*in an alternate universe*
Plants: so a study has been conducted and apparently humans make noise if their limbs get chopped off. But we dont know why! Could it be:

A) They're in agonizing pain wishing for the end to come quicker?
B) they're trying to send out distress signals to other humans around
C) its the sound of their blood spraying and hitting the ground

[shyofthemoon]

That's interesting because a lot of the time bugs will be attracted to your garden if your plants are stressed. Maybe they can hear it or sense the vibrations.

[icetealemon]

Imagine waking up and hearing foliage making too much noise because it hasn’t rained in a while.

[kumarvikramaditya]

There's also this phenomenon called crown shyness- where trees high up above the ground avoid being in direct contact to each other, do notice it the next time you're up for a trek in the forest. Botanists propose that it's to prevent overcrowding and/or spread of communicable parasites and diseases. Perhaps, the sound responses play a part in that as well!

[edwincook]

I would have to say this is the change in the hydrostatic pressure causing vibrations in the stems, it would be interesting to see the difference in sounds depending on the hydration level, age and thickness of the stem that is cut.

[meatyburritos]

My vote goes to 'distress signal' since the frequency (that is, number of times, NOT audio frequency) of the "pops" increased when the plants were subjected to stress, i.e. dehydration. My guess is that the pops may influence nearby plants to grow roots in the direction of distress to facilitate transfer of water, but that's just stipulation on my part and im no botanist lol. Fascinating and well written paper!

[legrandduca]

" meat is muuuurderrrr ""
Hold on, let me introduce you to the anguished screams of a tortured tomatoe