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Forgetting to water your plants happens from time to time.
Don’t feel bad if you’ve never noticed it though.
These noises range between 20 and 100 kilohertz, making them inaudible to the human ear.
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Likewise, the study found that plants may also respond to animal noises from their surrounding environment.
Moreover, we show that the emitted sounds carry information about the physiological state of the plant.
So, what triggers these plant sounds?
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Although the researchers couldn’t hear anything, the microphones were able to detect faint sounds.
It is a bit like popcornvery short clicks.
It is not singing,saysLilach Hadany at Tel-Aviv University.
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Naturally, the researchers wondered how plants emit these strange noises.
A study suggests that plants emit high-frequency sounds when they are stressed.
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These sounds are inaudible to the human ear, though.
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