Do you believe that plants always prefer silence? Have you ever noticed their response to nature when you walk in a garden or amidst the first? You can definitely experience the reaction to specific environmental changes. How do they behave when they are stressed due to environmental impacts? Will they cry and respond like us?
Recent studies have unveiled a captivating aspect of plant behaviour. Did you know that plants emit sounds beyond our hearing range when they're stressed? In fact, scientists have managed to capture these ultrasonic frequencies. This revelation could potentially transform our knowledge of plant communication, a phenomenon that's as intriguing as it is fascinating.
The sounds made by the plants are clear evidence of acoustic interactions because scientific studies say that, though the sound is not audible to the human ears, certain animals can hear it.
"Plants interact with insects and other animals all the time, and many of these organisms use sound for communication, so it would be very suboptimal for plants to not use sound at all," says Lilach Hadany, an evolutionary biologist.
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