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“Once-in-a-Hundred Year” Sightings of Bamboo Blossoms Reported in Japan
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#82> Perhaps even more surprising than the long intervals at which they flower is the fact that all plants of the same stock of bamboo will bloom at the same time, and then die, no matter where they are in the world. > Although the mechanism has yet to be explained by science, many believe there is some kind of natural “alarm clock” in the plant’s cells causing the behavior. That is amazing. I'm having a hard time imagi…
There are some other examples like that in biology, my favourite being 13- and 17-year periodic cicadas [1] with one theory being that a prime number was selected for during evolution to make it more difficult to synchronize with predator life cycles. Counters in biology are also a thing, for example Hayflick limit [2] which is a number of times a single cell can divide before it dies (partially explained by telomere…
Re: “Once-in-a-Hundred Year” Sightings of Bamboo Blossoms Reported in Japan
#83You’re an idiot
Is this really helpful or intellectually stimulating?
I urge you to check the rules before catching a shadow ban, my friend.
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, there's no reason to believe they are only one genetic individual. Just because many are clones, there's no reason to believe they all are clones from the same original plant.
"all plants of the same stock of bamboo" makes it sound like this would indeed be from the same original plant.
I'm no expert here, but that does seem to be a logical interpretation of what was written.
OTOH, the author seems distinctly... less scientifically inclined than the bulk of commenters here. They may have simply meant "of the same genus".
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
Coming from NJ I can safely say cicadeads are not made up.
I promise I am not trying to be an asshole here - is there some joke I'm missing about both of your spelling of cicadas?
I had thought Cicadiads are the waves of cicadas. Turns out people say brood.
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
In the past maybe. Now cats, dogs and foxes population just would explode. In the 21 century finding some glass jars or metallic recipients with a solid cover lid shouldn't be a great problem. If you can find a beer or a cocacola in your village you have yet a rat-proof recipient for safely storing seeds. Rodents are edible also if not other food is available Is also interesting to notice that this bamboo ecology fac…
> In the past maybe. Now cats, dogs and foxes population just would explode. Why would the response of cats, dogs, and foxes be different now than in the past?
There is a hypothesis in ecology named "the mesopredator release". It states that when big predators are hunted until extinction, small and mid sized predator populations increase dramatically.