Plants Really Do 'Scream'. We've Simply Never Heard Them Until Now

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

Vegans: .. uh.. now what?

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.

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

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

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

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...)

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.

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

I remember this mythbusters episode. They basically detected that plants “might “ scream or signal to other plants. They got some weird outliers too.

!digitalbioacoustics@lemmy.world

For me the question is if plants can actually hear these distress sounds, otherwise it’s not really for communication.

If this is interesting to you, you may also be interested to check out the book The Light Eaters by Zoe Schlanger

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so popping is the new screaming

Delicious screams. With butter.

vegans apparently gonna have to eat air now