Vegetarians must die!
alleukemist — 07.01.2014В связи с последними научными сведениями, идейным вегетарианцам,
кажется, не остается ничего, как убить себя ап стену.
Цитаты из статьи в Нью-Йоркере.
Plants have evolved between fifteen and twenty distinct senses,
including analogues of our five: smell and taste (they sense and
respond to chemicals in the air or on their bodies); sight (they
react differently to various wavelengths of light as well as to
shadow); touch (a vine or a root “knows” when it encounters a solid
object); and, it has been discovered, sound.
Heidi Appel, a chemical ecologist at the University of Missouri,
found that, when she played a recording of a caterpillar chomping a
leaf for a plant that hadn’t been touched, the sound primed the
plant’s genetic machinery to produce defense chemicals.
Karban believes that the plant is alerting all its leaves to the
presence of a pest, but its neighbors pick up the signal, too, and
gird themselves against attack.
The mimosa also collapses its leaves when the plant is dropped or
jostled. Gagliano potted fifty-six mimosa plants and rigged a
system to drop them from a height of fifteen centimetres every five
seconds. Each “training session” involved sixty drops. She reported
that some of the mimosas started to reopen their leaves after just
four, five, or six drops, as if they had concluded that the
stimulus could be safely ignored. “By the end, they were completely
open,” Gagliano said to the audience. “They couldn’t care less
anymore.” Was it just fatigue? Apparently not: when the plants
were shaken, they again closed up. Gagliano reported that she
retested her plants after a week and found that they continued to
disregard the drop stimulus, indicating that they “remembered” what
they had learned. Even after twenty-eight days, the lesson had not
been forgotten.
P.S. Прошу воспринимать название и фразу про стену как шутку. Может
быть, грубоватую. Хотя статья вполне серьезная.
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