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Plants have been listening to us this whole time

Inquiring Minds

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Do Coral Reefs Have an Acoustic Distress Signal?

Coral is so delightfully unexpected as a creature that could hear sound or make sound. Steve Simpson and Tim Gordon found coral larva, which are born in these mass spawning events that occur on a full moon,. They actually found that coral larva can hear sound. If you put underwater speakers and you play the sounds of healthy coral reefs, you have to imagine these degraded landscapes, bear empty barren of life. But it attracts fish and coral larva back. It gives me goosebumps even the thing about it. Now this is not going to solve the problem of climate change, ocean acidification, the disappearance of coral worldwide. But it is a tool in our toolkit we can

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