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Plants 'Recognize' Their Siblings
An anonymous reader writes to tell us that according to a recent study, Biologists have found that plants are able to recognize their own relatives. "Researchers at McMaster University have found that plants get fiercely competitive when forced to share their pot with strangers of the same species, but they're accommodating when potted with their siblings. [...] Though they lack cognition and memory, the study shows plants are capable of complex social behaviours such as altruism towards relatives, says Dudley. Like humans, the most interesting behaviours occur beneath the surface."
I too become fiercely competitive when forced to share my pot with strangers
See? I was right! Plants have feelings, too! Eating plants is MURDER!
I'm a nilegan for life! I won't harm another thing in this world, just to advance myself!
WARNING! This girl exceeds the MAXIMUM SAFE standards established by the FDA for BRATTINESS
They *hate* it when you do that!
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
Why should anyone believe your statement that they lack cognition and memory?
Well they asked the plants if they had cognition and memory, and the plants said "no". Then they asked if they meant they didn't have either or just didn't have both, and the plant said "both of what?" So there ya go.
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So, does this mean PETA will fuck off and die now?
Great, now we'll have the extreme left nut jobs chaining themselves to plants and committing vegetable rights terrorism in their war to save plants from the evils of corporations, America and that most loathsome enemy of all, worthy of destruction for the good of plants and animals alike, humanity!!!
Don't even mention that plants can feel pain. What are the vegans going to eat?
if you steal from one source, that is plagiarism, if you steal from many, well, that's just research.
That, or we're all reading way too much into this :-)
"Researchers at McMaster University have found that plants get fiercely competitive when forced to share their pot with strangers of the same species, but they're accommodating when potted with their siblings"
Ya right. I suggest they stop smoking the plants they are studying.
Hopefully nothing....More for me.
"I trusted him like a brother. That is, not at all"
--From somewhere in the original Amber Series
"My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right." --Senator Carl Schurz (1872)
nothing that casts a shadow...
A. Six thought and again three much disorder for too deficiency zinc.
This is perfect. Soon the vegans will realize that plant lives have just as much value as their own. They will have to quit eating plants and die of starvation.
Environmentalists are their own worst enemy. ~tricklenews.com
Yeah, I can picture the scene: Your dad catch you fucking your sister in the bathroom, and you say "I thought I was just masturbating!"
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Do a google before you post next time so you don't look so ignorant.
You better watch out, there may be dogs about . .
Other vegans, then.
Nah... more like your dad catching you fucking your sister in the bathroom, and he says "I thought I was just masturbating!"
Hannibal? Is that you?
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Plants ...because plants have feelings too.
So my personal spiritual goal is to be a (strict) vaginatarian.
Frankly, I'm very comfortable with my place in the food chain.
Great Cthulhu approves of your enthusiasm.