Animals react to the voices being created by plants, new research shows, opening the possibility that an invisible ecosystem may exist between them.
Earlier in such evidence, a team from Tel Aviv University found that women kites avoided laying their eggs on tomato plants, if they made noise, they were involved in the crisis, indicating that they could be uncomfortable.
The team was the first to show the team two years ago that plants scream when they are distressed or unhealthy.
The sounds are outside the limits of human hearing, but can be considered by many insects, bats and some mammals.
“This is the first performance of an animal that responds to the sounds produced by a plant.”
“These are speculation at this level, but it may be that all types of animals will decide on the basis of the sounds hearing from plants, such as pollination or hiding or planting in them.”
Researchers made a series of careful controlled experiments to ensure that kites were responding to the sound and not the presence of plants.
They will now examine the sounds of different plants and whether other species decide on them, such as pollination or hiding or planting in them.
“You might think that there may be many complex conversations, and this is the first step,” says Pro Yowel.
Another area of investigation is whether plants can inform each other through sound and work in response, such as the Professor of Tel Aviv University, according to the incident, to conserve their water in drought conditions.
“This is an exciting question,” he told BBC News.
“If a plant is emphasized then organisms are most concerned about it. There are other plants and they can respond in many ways.”
TauResearchers emphasize that plants are not emotional. They feel that their local conditions change through physical effects due to changes. Today’s discovery suggests that these sounds can be useful for other animals and possibly plants, which are capable of seeing these sounds.
If so, plants and animals have covered the ability to produce and hear sounds for their mutual benefits, according to Professor Headney.
“Plants can develop to make more sounds or louds if they were of profit and hearing of animals can develop accordingly so that they can get this large amount of information.
“This is a huge, unexplained area – a whole world is being discovered.”
In the experiment, researchers focused on female kites, usually laying their eggs on tomato plants so that the larvae can prepare them once.
The perception was that kites seek the best possible site to lay their eggs – a healthy plant that could properly nourish the larva. Therefore, when the plant indicates that it is dehydrated and under stress, the question was whether kites would focus on the warning and avoid laying eggs on it?
The answer was that they did not lay eggs, because the plants were producing due to the sound.
Research has been published in the Journal.
