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What is described in the article doesn't fit the definition of panic. I'm torn because maybe I wouldn't have read the article without the needless anthropomorphization. Plants are awesome and interesting to me because they're so planty and not animaly.
A defense mechanism that is triggered by a hormone? Doesn't seem terribly far off
At least in my personal dictionary.
What is described in the article doesn't fit the definition of panic. I'm torn because maybe I wouldn't have read the article without the needless anthropomorphization. Plants are awesome and interesting to me because they're so planty and not animaly.
It would have been nice to see what particular plants were used in this study. I somehow doubt that all plants react this way. Considering some plants grow under water, others such as sequoias are dependent on fog for their irrigation. Interesting article none the less.
It would have been nice to see what particular plants were used in this study. I somehow doubt that all plants react this way. Considering some plants grow under water, others such as sequoias are dependent on fog for their irrigation. Interesting article none the less.
Sequoias still see a lot of rainfall where they live
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He makes an interesting point. Some plants have a response to rain triggered by a hormone. To ascribe the term panic to it though might possibly be mischaracterizing the response because of the tendency to anthropomorphize.
On the other hand, we have many primal and ancient behaviors that can be contextualized on evolutionary timescales so that it can be reasonably said that, yea, a lot of our behaviors have common heritage with even plants.
What is described in the article doesn't fit the definition of panic. I'm torn because maybe I wouldn't have read the article without the needless anthropomorphization. Plants are awesome and interesting to me because they're so planty and not animaly.
Ok, we'll give you some scare quotes to get some ironic detachment in the title above.
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Except "panic" means an ultimately self destructive overreaction. At least in my personal dictionary.
Not all of us use your personal dictionary.
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Sequoias still see a lot of rainfall where they live
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fog-that-nourishe... https://baynature.org/article/fog-and-redwoods-demystifying-...
While I'm sure that fogs are essential for redwoods in the California climate, it doesn't mean they are inherently coupled - they grow quite happily in the inland Canterbury Plains, bugger all fog, but enough rain to get them watered.
Hell, we even named a suburb after one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redwood,_Christchurch