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Today's CBC Quirks & Quarks
Some kind of tobacco plants send out an olfactory 911 :shock: call when being eaten by some caterpillars. Certain bugs respond, crawl up the plant and waste the caterpillar.
This, plus other interesting observations has raised the question:
Are plants sentient?
[video=youtube;bLO7IxKwruc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLO7IxKwruc[/video]
Some kind of tobacco plants send out an olfactory 911 :shock: call when being eaten by some caterpillars. Certain bugs respond, crawl up the plant and waste the caterpillar.
This, plus other interesting observations has raised the question:
Are plants sentient?
[video=youtube;bLO7IxKwruc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLO7IxKwruc[/video]