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Plants have been listening to us this whole time
Inquiring Minds
Are Plants Able to Decode Ultrasonic Sounds?
Monica Galliano says organisms should be able to derive information from sound because biochemicals are very expensive, you know, to produce and they're slow. She argues that the very first sense was the ability to sense these vibrations in water. And she determined this to a set of experiments that examined where they grew their roots. So more broadly, this gives rise to a hypothesis that species are sort of adapted to make sounds which are ecologically relevant for them.
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