Comments on: Your plants aren’t listening — unless you’re a plant too. http://blogs.earthsky.org/eleanorimster/plants/062639/your-plants-arent-listening-unless-youre-a-plant-too/ Body & mind, animals in a human world Fri, 16 May 2008 21:43:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.1 By: Tom T http://blogs.earthsky.org/eleanorimster/plants/062639/your-plants-arent-listening-unless-youre-a-plant-too/#comment-85 Tom T Wed, 27 Jun 2007 00:03:48 +0000 http://blogs.earthsky.org/eleanorimster/plants/062639/your-plants-arent-listening-unless-youre-a-plant-too/#comment-85 While I no longer trust anything coming out of Kyoto, this makes a lot more sense than an agreement on alleged climate change that couldn't possibly work, even if the climate was changing due to humans. I have never believed plants can hear (they must have very small ears if they can). While I no longer trust anything coming out of Kyoto, this makes a lot more sense than an agreement on alleged climate change that couldn’t possibly work, even if the climate was changing due to humans. I have never believed plants can hear (they must have very small ears if they can).

]]> By: eimster http://blogs.earthsky.org/eleanorimster/plants/062639/your-plants-arent-listening-unless-youre-a-plant-too/#comment-84 eimster Tue, 26 Jun 2007 20:18:01 +0000 http://blogs.earthsky.org/eleanorimster/plants/062639/your-plants-arent-listening-unless-youre-a-plant-too/#comment-84 Yes, Jorge - It's turning out to be a chatty world. Who (what) is going to be discovered having a conversation next? I just can't see rocks arguing with rocks, or even waves whispering to a sandy shore, but then again, I always pooh-poohed the kooks who believed plants could communicate. Eleanor Yes, Jorge - It’s turning out to be a chatty world. Who (what) is going to be discovered having a conversation next? I just can’t see rocks arguing with rocks, or even waves whispering to a sandy shore, but then again, I always pooh-poohed the kooks who believed plants could communicate.

Eleanor

]]> By: jorgesalazar http://blogs.earthsky.org/eleanorimster/plants/062639/your-plants-arent-listening-unless-youre-a-plant-too/#comment-83 jorgesalazar Tue, 26 Jun 2007 20:11:05 +0000 http://blogs.earthsky.org/eleanorimster/plants/062639/your-plants-arent-listening-unless-youre-a-plant-too/#comment-83 I wonder if a plant can communicate with a couch potato? Very cool. Here's a "link":http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/content/6241377640t332n7/ to the article available for free viewing from Biology Letters. I was wondering how they actually communicate with each other, and the best I gather is that they do so through their roots, by touch. So while all may appear fine and dandy above ground, below the surface might be a cauldron of boiling fear and desire. Maybe someday we'll really know what they're saying. I wonder if a plant can communicate with a couch potato?

Very cool. Here’s a “link”:http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/content/6241377640t332n7/ to the article available for free viewing from Biology Letters.

I was wondering how they actually communicate with each other, and the best I gather is that they do so through their roots, by touch. So while all may appear fine and dandy above ground, below the surface might be a cauldron of boiling fear and desire. Maybe someday we’ll really know what they’re saying.

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