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Plants Really Do 'Scream'. We've Simply Never Heard Them Until Now (www.sciencealert.com)

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

This sound right to me