I_Miss_Daniel ( @I_Miss_Daniel@kbin.social ) 19•8 months agoTomato plants in distress apparently make sounds too.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-31/plants-talk-die-of-thirst-popping-sound/102167028
lol3droflxp ( @lol3droflxp@kbin.social ) 25•8 months agoTo be honest, this is like saying that cars tires scream in pain during an accident. It’s highly unlikely to be a “voluntary” sound emission and not just a result of their physiology of being literally a bunch of tiny water tubes drying up.
That makes the fact a possum ravaged mine a touch more horrifying.
rob64 ( @rob64@startrek.website ) 1•8 months agoI was sure it was going to be this: https://youtu.be/CmJYZ1NIn1Y?si=2pxasfSsJYaLCGuo
qyron ( @qyron@sopuli.xyz ) 17•8 months agoAnd now I want to go around leaving weels for mice to run in.
Mac ( @Mac@mander.xyz ) 14•8 months agoI’m not sure about the one about humans. Some will, absolutely. However many will look the other way (and watch their stock ticker go brrr).
newtraditionalists ( @newtraditionalists@beehaw.org ) 6•8 months agoIt’s actually really crazy how little we know. Pretty much every discipline has questions that are answered with “we don’t know”. When it comes to knowledge we have barely scratched the surface.
InputZero ( @InputZero@lemmy.ml ) 1•8 months agoWe don’t know what we don’t know and that’s okay. Actually I think it’s exciting, there are new understandings of the things around us that are just waiting to be discovered. It can certainly be scary too, being the first one to explore a new field alone and in the dark.
newtraditionalists ( @newtraditionalists@beehaw.org ) 2•8 months agoPersonally, I don’t find it scary at all. It’s miraculous and inspiring!
Doxatek ( @Doxatek@mander.xyz ) 4•8 months agoIt’s nice to think this way but it’s an oversimplification. The trees are trying to strangle and poison each other The mice will eat each other’s babies etc. Lol
Franzia ( @Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 2•8 months agoWait there’s drama too?
fl42v ( @fl42v@lemmy.ml ) 2•8 months ago… The humans will procreate, divide into groups and eventually start s war