Electrical experiments with plants that count and communicate | Greg Gage

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  • Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
  • Neuroscientist Greg Gage takes sophisticated equipment used to study the brain out of graduate-level labs and brings them to middle- and high-school classrooms (and, sometimes, to the TED stage.) Prepare to be amazed as he hooks up the Mimosa pudica, a plant whose leaves close when touched, and the Venus flytrap to an EKG to show us how plants use electrical signals to convey information, prompt movement and even count.
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  • @GreenSemester
    @GreenSemester 5 років тому +3635

    This is how every Biology class should start in grade school. Thank you for sharing this amazing discovery.

    • @elcothelosen3621
      @elcothelosen3621 5 років тому +20

      the venus fly trap i knew it from bio-class... i knew it does not actually count. it uses a trigger response like a muscle ..stil it doesn't have any ..how impossible can nature get ambiguously ..!!💝

    • @toneenorman2135
      @toneenorman2135 5 років тому +5

      Donald J nice story:) I hope some of it is true. I protect the living things around me.

    • @toneenorman2135
      @toneenorman2135 5 років тому +1

      Donald J well, if I heard any horn music in the Northern California sky my heart would sing! If it was lovely.....don’t like those scary sky sounds.

    • @MichaelDiSalvoSATandACTTutor
      @MichaelDiSalvoSATandACTTutor 5 років тому +6

      This reminds me of our new seminary rector's Retreat for us before the school year began. He spoke about an experiment with two plants. The first plant was subjected to being cut up and torched and yelled at my a experimenter. Later on that same individual came into the room next to a second plant that was a bystander of the first event. The electrical impulses were measured on that second plant when the plant murderer came into the room. They were truly off the chart. Our Rector who incidentally was not a good guy, at least by my standards, pointed out that's if a plant could be that sensitive how sensitive could an animal be. If an animal could be not much more sensitive, sensitive could a person be. If a son were to die how much would it impact the father. But if the son of God where to be beaten and tortured and murdered how much would it affect his Heavenly Father?

    • @GreenSemester
      @GreenSemester 5 років тому +4

      @@MichaelDiSalvoSATandACTTutor I love your story! Please subscribe and tell me more about this experiment. Amazing!!!

  • @meteor2012able
    @meteor2012able 4 роки тому +942

    I am old and one summer day, resting and pondering things in the shade of my porch, I felt this "odd" urge to thank the potted flowers for being so fragrant and beautiful. Then,I saw a butterfly with tattered wings visiting these flowers. I then thanked the butterfly in the same spirit as the flowers.
    I felt good about the whole experience and felt connected to living things and nature as a whole. The whole experience induced me to wonder if I touched on something deeply profound and devine.
    I am sure I did....it was an experience much deeper than church and it's rituals.
    You are the first to know of that day.
    Thanks for reading my account.

    • @rahulv8882
      @rahulv8882 4 роки тому +36

      That's why 'pot' is so great!

    • @whitelightsheddinweedsmokin
      @whitelightsheddinweedsmokin 4 роки тому +60

      That's a beautiful story.💗
      I've had a similar experience on magic mushrooms I saw the forest for what it really was, our really patient friend. The trees were smiling with glee and let me know I can connect to earth anytime I want quiet time or rest. All the trees and plants had a different essence and personality but all were joined to the same source, earth of course. Sorry if that sounds spacey...🌱♥️

    • @darienapplewhite5661
      @darienapplewhite5661 4 роки тому +4

      I love it

    • @MeltedEarth
      @MeltedEarth 4 роки тому +3

      Wow

    • @christopherclarke3022
      @christopherclarke3022 4 роки тому +5

      Thank you for sharing your account.

  • @wendylynne5010
    @wendylynne5010 4 роки тому +496

    Wow my grandmother was known as the town flowerlady. She believed (by her intuition) that flowers liked to be touched and she would sing to them with what she called love in her heart. She swore it made her flowers grow bigger and Fuller. I know some thought she was a crazy flower lady, but after seeing this video I know she was right!!. People Loved her flowers as well. And she also believed that when love is transfered from human to plant, it also spreads love around it. "Grammy you were an old soul with a understanding all your own. I miss your beautiful gardens, I miss you singing amongst the flowers. 💖💖💖 You were right."

    • @rugoshath
      @rugoshath 3 роки тому +32

      She sounds like she was an awesome lady. I like the part about "when love is transfered from human to plant, it also spreads love around it." It makes sense, brilliant mind and heart. xx

    • @davewarman2976
      @davewarman2976 3 роки тому +4

      Thank you for sharing this. My mother did the same and always had beautiful flowers.

    • @chathere6843
      @chathere6843 3 роки тому +5

      Yeah that's feels good to know. Grand ma u were right.
      Thanks beautiful granddaughter of a pure hearted grandma.

    • @thunderlycanthrope7804
      @thunderlycanthrope7804 3 роки тому +4

      Don’t say that it’s love. Flowers react to certain vibrations. You can’t just baby a plant because it won’t grow that way.

    • @davewarman2976
      @davewarman2976 3 роки тому +9

      @@thunderlycanthrope7804 thanks Debbie Downer. You miss the point of her post.

  • @poniboishelluv8982
    @poniboishelluv8982 4 роки тому +14

    I've known this since youth. my aunt owned a florist shop and she tought me all about plants having feelings. that's why people talk to them when watering. you also can get alot of positive energy from plant's. that's why you feel happy every time you go to buy flowers

    • @emilianoromero-cano2605
      @emilianoromero-cano2605 4 роки тому +3

      Poniboi Shelluv i- I dont think the video is trying to say that plants have feelings😬

    • @poniboishelluv8982
      @poniboishelluv8982 4 роки тому +2

      to be honest they really do. go to the wilderness and meditate, then you will feel the power of nature.

  • @dpkrj123
    @dpkrj123 5 років тому +1544

    In India plants are not disturbed after evening because they may be resting.
    Inspired by the belief, Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose(1858-1937), one of the most prominent first Indian scientists who proved by experimentation that both animals and plants share much in common. He demonstrated that plants are also sensitive to heat, cold, light, noise and various other external stimuli. Bose contrived a very sophisticated instrument called the Crescograph, which could record and observe plants minute responses to external stimulants.

    • @madhus.268
      @madhus.268 5 років тому +34

      Deepak Raj
      That’s so cool

    • @dpkrj123
      @dpkrj123 5 років тому +95

      @@madhus.268 Our culture is full of knowledge but credit and exploration is long due.

    • @sunishthanangal1121
      @sunishthanangal1121 5 років тому +11

      Thanks a lot for the information!

    • @Gspot4000
      @Gspot4000 5 років тому +12

      Thanks for that I knew I heard this somewhere else long ago

    • @WoSarvatraHain
      @WoSarvatraHain 5 років тому +4

      Up you go!

  • @JonnyMudMower
    @JonnyMudMower 5 років тому +605

    My weed plants and I always have the best conversations ....they are my favorite people

  • @edspetka5694
    @edspetka5694 4 роки тому +400

    Am I the only one that felt sad that the fly only closes a few times and it had its action potential wasted? Poor flytrap! Awesome video!

    • @MariaFernandazz
      @MariaFernandazz 4 роки тому +7

      me too lol

    • @strekozkaplays
      @strekozkaplays 4 роки тому +16

      Same
      I was like "wait, if it only closes a few times in its life, why are you wasting one of those on this? There's an ekg response - that's good enough for me, don't need to show me."

    • @XOXO7484
      @XOXO7484 4 роки тому +5

      Hopefully he'll feed one through the opening later.

    • @lamowkachow4597
      @lamowkachow4597 3 роки тому +9

      I was thinking the same thing, although science can be cruel, if the experiment wasn't done we wouldn't have this evidence of the intelligence of plants

    • @PaganCaleb
      @PaganCaleb 3 роки тому +24

      If the plant is healthy, it's not a big deal. They are always growing new traps and as long as you're not doing it continuously and constantly putting that stress on the plant, it'll be fine. I had some fly traps that had 15+ traps and most would never be used. They would live for awhile and die off, like any other leaf.

  • @ananya.a04
    @ananya.a04 3 роки тому +63

    Beautiful, mesmerizing, intriguing...I could keep going on and on. This is how biology should be taught. This is how technology should be incorporated into education. I just hope the world doesn't end before that happens. I would really like to see teachers like these in every classroom someday.

    • @recoveringsoul755
      @recoveringsoul755 3 роки тому

      Those sensitive plants also react to heat, like a flame

  • @cruciferousvegetable
    @cruciferousvegetable 6 років тому +1544

    I wonder how many kids are going to win a science fair by copying this.

    • @rainyday6430
      @rainyday6430 6 років тому +157

      cruciferousvegetable hopefully a lot. Kids should totally be replicating and innovating with all sorts of science (if safe!). I wish I had the Internet back when I made science fair entries... damn, this is a good one!

    • @cruciferousvegetable
      @cruciferousvegetable 6 років тому +27

      Rainy Day This one is affordable, doable and would win best in show.

    • @polyscient
      @polyscient 6 років тому +18

      Just as long as they aren't given credit for it in the news like the kid who didn't invent the 3d solar cell who the media praised as a genius...

    • @stephenborntrager6542
      @stephenborntrager6542 5 років тому +17

      @@cruciferousvegetable I wonder about the affordable part. Exotic plants can be difficult to find and difficult/expensive to grow. Hopefully this one is not too bad though, because it's sensory ability is actually very interesting. I myself wonder about going the other way, using the plant as a motion detector. Could maybe run sense wire to an arduino and use it to trigger an alarm or something. Could be an interesting way to scare the cats away from my other seedlings!

    • @originalname28
      @originalname28 5 років тому +1

      I'm pretty jealous for that kid but I have some dignity

  • @jairofranco6847
    @jairofranco6847 5 років тому +65

    That's how you know that everything is connected . Amazing.

    • @user-uo7qz7dw2x
      @user-uo7qz7dw2x 3 роки тому

      U sound really dumb “ everything’s connected” like do you feel as if understanding that things happen a discovery within itself? Did you go out side and feel the wind and just go “yep, this proves it… everything connected”

    • @user-uo7qz7dw2x
      @user-uo7qz7dw2x 3 роки тому

      Like what do you even mean? 😂

  • @AmjadMiandad
    @AmjadMiandad 4 роки тому +21

    there is a common saying in our literature that "Even if you insult/abuse a plant for a longer period of time eventually it will die" for sure this saying is not based technically on science but reflects the sensitivity & emotions plants got

  • @nshk7163
    @nshk7163 4 роки тому +414

    Venus fly trap: is there a fly in my mouth ?
    Greg Gage : Yes
    Venus fly trap : lol ok (CLOSES IT'S MOUTH)
    Greg Gage: *BAMBOOZLED*

  • @paulineoneill852
    @paulineoneill852 4 роки тому +43

    I loved this. It proves what I have always felt, that all living things have some kind of communication ability. Including insects.

    • @416pp
      @416pp 2 роки тому +1

      Obviously insects do? Long before humans were around

    • @Drogas3653
      @Drogas3653 2 роки тому

      It was no secret that insects could communicate 😂

    • @DavidAlki88
      @DavidAlki88 7 місяців тому

      What about minerals and rocks Pauline? Hmm? Share your thoughts now and not some eureka moment after the fact.

  • @horatio3852
    @horatio3852 5 років тому +262

    human: touch flytrap.
    mimosa: TRIGERED!)

    • @tchgs11zdok15
      @tchgs11zdok15 5 років тому +8

      😂😂😂👌

    • @she3po945
      @she3po945 5 років тому

      Triggered Level 100

    • @charackthe
      @charackthe 5 років тому +4

      Flytrap was mimosa's lover. Naturally, the mimosa got jealous.

    • @muhaddesachowdhury1001
      @muhaddesachowdhury1001 5 років тому

      Mimosa is very shy and doesn’t know how to show her anger, so she acts cold and shuts herself up.

    • @ashwinnair2049
      @ashwinnair2049 4 роки тому

      😂😂😂😂🤣

  • @ericofamerica2123
    @ericofamerica2123 3 роки тому +8

    That was nicely demonstrated. I'm surprised anyone would deny that plants are living and have feelings and thoughts.

    • @djvincekline7338
      @djvincekline7338 Рік тому +3

      Vegans do! Because they don't want to be pointed to their hypocrisy ;-)

    • @HalloTschuess
      @HalloTschuess 7 місяців тому

      Plants don't have thoughts bro. Not even insects have thoughts.
      They are led by external stimuli only, not internal. Their behavior is a reflex or a reaction, not a decision or action compared to other life forms.
      Their behaviour is more of a computer code like {if THIS is true, then DO this; Else DO this}.
      They aren't curious and don't wonder about things, like a human asking philosophical questions, or a dog being fascinated or weirded out by the movement of clothes in a washing machine (the European ones with a glas window, not the weird American toploaders where you can't see the clothes being washed).

  • @SudhirRaja23
    @SudhirRaja23 4 роки тому +11

    What a friggin genius! Amazing and humbling. I used to play with the Mimosa Pudica plants in my Grandparents' backyard but never once thought of getting to the depth of their action mechanism. This experiment has not only changed the way I look at plants but has given me new respect for the possibilities that exist around me. It inspires me to encourage my kid to explore way more than I did. Thank you for sharing this wonderful video

  • @atrocious_pr0xy
    @atrocious_pr0xy 4 роки тому +1504

    who else here apologizes to plants when they accidentally hurt a them?

    • @13anushkaanand64
      @13anushkaanand64 4 роки тому +21

      Meeeeeeee

    • @Sedonaboo135
      @Sedonaboo135 4 роки тому +8

      Me

    • @AASHISHKUMAR-gn4on
      @AASHISHKUMAR-gn4on 4 роки тому +4

      @@Sedonaboo135 me also

    • @shelli-ann9369
      @shelli-ann9369 4 роки тому +25

      A relative knocked over an orchid off the windowsill and that tore all its leaves and he hid it from me. When I saw it, I was so upset that I started tearing up and yelling. I had to repot and relocate it. Thankfully the plant is recovering after a few months of tlc, (not so much for the relative😋)

    • @hotelvalsinestra6380
      @hotelvalsinestra6380 4 роки тому +6

      god thats wierd that all teh steps i make on a plant i hurt a thing

  • @Loebane
    @Loebane 6 років тому +389

    THERE'S the TED I've come to love

    • @Prashant07581
      @Prashant07581 6 років тому

      Loebane i

    • @mikemondano3624
      @mikemondano3624 5 років тому

      Definitely some of the best scifi out there. But some people really believe these crackpots.

  • @OptrixTV
    @OptrixTV 6 років тому +842

    I probably learnt more in these 9 minutes than I did from a whole year of biology

  • @paulsmith-gi5vm
    @paulsmith-gi5vm 4 роки тому +143

    Ten years ago while I was preparing to go work an emergency weather alert came on our local station warning of a fast moving, strong, storm system entering the city.While observing the map and speed/direction of travel I realized I only had minutes to seek shelter in the basement. After grabbing the radio I ran towards the stairs and began to hear the wind and felt its pressure effects on the house i.e. a groaning of the timbers and screeching of nails being pulled apart. The sounds increased rapidly in volume and by the time I reached the bottom of the stair case I covered my ears lest they be damaged by the intensity. Looking out of a basement window i saw the very large old pear tree racking and twisting in the intense wind shear and heard an almost indescribable sound. Like a scream. To me it sounded as if the trees were screaming as their limbs were being ripped from their trunks! As suddenly as the storm came upon us it disappeared. It was moving 70+ mph. I could have left the radio because the electric lines and poles were destroyed as well as trees and branches everywhere. Still, I remember that eerie haunting and intense "screaming"of the trees to this day.

    • @Mortthemoose
      @Mortthemoose 4 роки тому +9

      Wow! Interesting story.

    • @yourhuckleberry6757
      @yourhuckleberry6757 4 роки тому +4

      Silence of the trees... My favorite movie.

    • @lrvdo
      @lrvdo 4 роки тому +1

      Ist the tree okay now?

    • @paulsmith-gi5vm
      @paulsmith-gi5vm 4 роки тому +4

      @@lrvdo The house was sold two years later (8 years ago). I'm curious myself to see if it's still there. It was very grand and old . I'll drive by later today and let you know 😊

    • @k.m7350
      @k.m7350 4 роки тому +1

      Interesting

  • @carmellacandy509
    @carmellacandy509 5 років тому +220

    The mimosa is called "no me tocas" (don't touch me) in Costa Rica.

    • @carmellacandy509
      @carmellacandy509 5 років тому +4

      Ole...ole, ole, ole.....Ticos, Ticos!

    • @johanseque
      @johanseque 5 років тому +9

      Yo la conozco como dormilona

    • @iamankitajena
      @iamankitajena 5 років тому +10

      In my state of India we call it lajakuli lata(shyfull plant)

    • @iqlimadamiarazarous9941
      @iqlimadamiarazarous9941 5 років тому +3

      In Malaysia, we call it shameplant or pokok semalu

    • @jacqueswebster750
      @jacqueswebster750 5 років тому +3

      in philippines we call it "makahiya" came from the word "hiya" meaning shy

  • @atorrance
    @atorrance 6 років тому +216

    Simple. Educational. Great explanations. Love this! Hope he considers giving a longer talk with more examples or applications.

  • @Argoon1981
    @Argoon1981 5 років тому +51

    This are the types of talks that I love on TED.

  • @maryhairy1
    @maryhairy1 4 роки тому +76

    Biology would have been so much more exciting seeing this displayed.

  • @andromedasurfer5084
    @andromedasurfer5084 6 років тому +398

    Question : If the neurons in the heart are the cause of the electrical current picked up by the EKG in humans... what then is the cause of the electrical current measured in plants ?

    • @AllHustleNoLuck8Gaming
      @AllHustleNoLuck8Gaming 6 років тому +36

      Andromeda Surfer
      Thats an awesome question !

    • @onlyme0349
      @onlyme0349 6 років тому +34

      Get it to the top so it gets answered!

    • @Somenath_Sen
      @Somenath_Sen 6 років тому +85

      Your question is exactly on point and I think scientists themselves are quite unsure about the exact answer to it. Some say it might be the influx and efflux of ions in and out of the cytoplasm through the phloem.
      I found this 1983 article which you might wanna look into.
      pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3c2c/41e497d4589e958e181cae226681665b8788.pdf

    • @friedmule5403
      @friedmule5403 6 років тому +48

      Andromeda Surfer wary great question!
      I think one of the problem is how we define a brain, everyone knows that humans have one brain, but that do in no way exclude that we also have as many "braincells" in our stomach as a cat have in it's head.
      So maybe do the plants have something comparable to what we have in our stomachs!

    • @friedmule5403
      @friedmule5403 6 років тому +7

      Will Pack I am not sure, as far as I know, there is several different kinds in the small intestine, if they have the same kind or distribution in the large intestine, is fare beyond my knowledge. :-)

  • @z.deutch1334
    @z.deutch1334 6 років тому +2923

    Gonna show this to my vegan friend

    • @yudy92
      @yudy92 6 років тому +137

      Cameron Lorna and what do you expect to achieve?

    • @99wins
      @99wins 6 років тому +423

      I guess your vegan friend will say. Cool! But i don't actually kill entire plants when I eat them, they can grow back. But that chicken leg you ate, even if you let the chicken
      live, will never grow back.

    • @saradanser894
      @saradanser894 6 років тому +185

      99wins
      As a vegan and lifelong vegetarian, these kinds of science experiments do actually make me feel uncomfortable- wondering if there must be strictly humane methods of harvesting plants.. I just detest the idea of hurting ANYTHING 🤕🌿🌱🌾🤔

    • @joelfernandes9793
      @joelfernandes9793 6 років тому +206

      Sara Danser, I don't think so that there is such a thing as harvesting humanely. We have to feed on living things to survive. Vegetarianism was born out of misconception that plants don't move around and make sounds, therefore they don't feel anything.

    • @arjun6358
      @arjun6358 6 років тому +8

      Lol

  • @josebatiles4262
    @josebatiles4262 5 років тому +130

    I remember when I was a kid my father would tell me, plants can hear us. That explains why he sometimes talk to them. By the way, he is an Agriculturist.

    • @syamilhakimi2383
      @syamilhakimi2383 4 роки тому +11

      Yup that's true! I think we have to warn to the vegan people to stop eating plants and animal! Because both feel pain living things owhh and also have consciousness😂

    • @Noname-lm8tl
      @Noname-lm8tl 3 роки тому +8

      @Alex Woodly i am a vegan too and understand the importance of life. What if aliens came and chopped us to pieces and roasted and ate us right, how would we feel

    • @Noname-lm8tl
      @Noname-lm8tl 3 роки тому +4

      @@syamilhakimi2383 we don't kill plants and eat them. We just eat the fruits. The excess energy is stored in the form of starch in plants. The starch in plants is equal to fat in our body. The starch later turns into a fruit or vegetable

    • @syamilhakimi2383
      @syamilhakimi2383 3 роки тому +16

      @@Noname-lm8tl so you take their babies just like that? That was their babies 🤣😂

    • @ohlookitscorn.
      @ohlookitscorn. 3 роки тому +4

      that's probably why when you talk and compliment your plants, they grow!

  • @jimmyharrison1864
    @jimmyharrison1864 Рік тому +3

    I'm soon to be 80 and have always had a thing for plants. People say thet talk to their plants. For me it's more an attitude and feeling. I play music for my plants and birds, inside and out. I do "communicate " and talk to myself.
    I'm known as the plant doctor. Sometimes mybgreenhouse get crowded. But they always respond. Back in the 70s this was demonstrated on tv.
    Also a book called
    "The Secret Life of Planets".
    They started a car by plant signal.
    They are truly amazing.
    And healthy.
    I dont use chemical anything, not even plastic pots or styrofoam beads.

  • @metalmayhem3622
    @metalmayhem3622 5 років тому +1058

    Now I'll feel guilty mowing my lawn, thanks.

    • @THE-BIG-JP-REILS
      @THE-BIG-JP-REILS 5 років тому +83

      Metal Mayhem committing genocide just to be able to play in the yard smh

    • @nguyenthanhsu9135
      @nguyenthanhsu9135 5 років тому +136

      The smell of grass is their crying in pain.

    • @stephane7607
      @stephane7607 5 років тому +46

      I do not see any other way for you to pick up all the blades of grass and bury them individually with a ceremony. Then you can join the community of repented plant killers:)

    • @Bierman2121
      @Bierman2121 5 років тому +43

      how do you think vegans feel? lol

    • @she3po945
      @she3po945 5 років тому +4

      Lmao 😂

  • @guystrylife9688
    @guystrylife9688 3 роки тому +5

    Probably the most informative, simple, and mind activating TED talk I’ve seen.

  • @kristypolymath1359
    @kristypolymath1359 5 років тому +14

    This nearly brought tears to my eyes. I've always enjoyed science-related TED talks, and I love having my eyes opened to new things. I didn't cry because I'm petered out on UA-cam videos after binge watching for 3 days, lol.

    • @paulsmith-gi5vm
      @paulsmith-gi5vm 4 роки тому

      Been there done that. Still do occasionally. Remember to stretch,eat drink,evacuate, regularly. Also change screen devices distance and size to reduce eye strain.

  • @mridusmita84
    @mridusmita84 2 роки тому +5

    This was just so amazing to me as well as my 6 year old who was asking me why touch-me-nots closes on touching. One correction, the mimosa or touch-me-not is also widely found in India, and Asia beyond South America

  • @kentvandervelden
    @kentvandervelden 6 років тому +395

    Wonderful inspirational tool to get people interested in science.

    • @JavierFernandez01
      @JavierFernandez01 6 років тому +2

      Kent VanderVelden science, life, cause and effect.. This is one of my favorite Ted talks. And one of my favorite subjects. The only subject, really. Anywho..
      Merry Christmas!

    • @CaesarCassius
      @CaesarCassius 5 років тому

      LOL Hardly, this is spectacle, not science. Actual science is boring, not cosmic space odysseys

    • @HappyHimitsu
      @HappyHimitsu 5 років тому +1

      @@CaesarCassius I dare say there are a lot of very notable and renowned scientists who would disagree with you on that point. What a stupid thing to say lol.

    • @randomdude9135
      @randomdude9135 5 років тому +1

      @@CaesarCassius I think you're confusing "actual science" with the "calculation part."

  • @Blackgeoff1
    @Blackgeoff1 6 років тому +31

    This was very interesting. It recalled to my mind an experiment I read of decades ago (sometime in the '70s) with a geranium house plant while its owner was out of town.
    Equipment was set up to drop a prawn (or a shrimp) into a pot of boiling water at totally random intervals over a period of a few hours; and each time it did
    this was recorded. Quite separately, in the same room, a geranium plant was set up with electrodes (like with the plants in this video).
    There were no connecting wires between the two setups, so there was no transfer of electrical energy between them.
    What happened was each time a prawn (or shrimp) was dumped into the boiling water, a sharp spike appeared on the graph connected to the geranium plant.
    The plant sensed the momentary agonising shock the crustracean experienced immediately before dying. The times of the crustaceans being dumped in boiling water and the sharp spikes on the graph paper registered from the geranium, matched perfectly in every instance.
    The geranium also registered spikes when the plants owner returned after an airplane trip. The exact time of touch-down at the airport co-related exactly to a spike from the plant, as well as a spike on the graph when the owner turned up in their driveway, as well as when they came into the apartment. The experiments were repeated with the same results. The geranium sensed things happening without being wired directly to them - the screams of the crustaceans being killed as well as sensing the proximity of its owner.
    This was decades ago; and I can find no reference to it on the internet. (Not all things make it to the web). I thought this might be of interest, especially if there was someone in the comments old enough to have read the same story.

    • @eugenehvorostyanov2409
      @eugenehvorostyanov2409 5 років тому +5

      Would love to see references. Very interesting experiment indeed.

    • @j_lihua9416
      @j_lihua9416 5 років тому +2

      @@eugenehvorostyanov2409 www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/12/23/the-intelligent-plant
      Here's something somewhat related 👍

    • @windwhipped5
      @windwhipped5 5 років тому +1

      Healthy geraniums are like sponges im not suprised they used them then.

    • @masterofsparkshwy6974
      @masterofsparkshwy6974 5 років тому

      So... you say it could sense touch down of his plane at the airport?? How far away? Recall? Any distance is baffling... I'm more than intrigued, he'll this plant is more aware of it's surroundings than my kids!!!

    • @Schnitz13
      @Schnitz13 5 років тому

      It's referenced in the book The Secret Lives of Plants.

  • @Maru-ge6jn
    @Maru-ge6jn 5 років тому +340

    "Where did you go to school again?"
    UA-cam!

    • @brigritte2091
      @brigritte2091 5 років тому +3

      yep!

    • @devonscope6222
      @devonscope6222 5 років тому +15

      College is such a scam

    • @fusionsportdaily1650
      @fusionsportdaily1650 5 років тому +3

      @@devonscope6222 it's like Hopsin said in his song Fly (one of my favorite Hopsin songs), "did the man who invented college, go to college? Hmpf no".

    • @angebrowne1730
      @angebrowne1730 4 роки тому +1

      John Walker Lee Could find better truthful education on yt than in any school or uni - if you know what to look for and have a discerning mind to distinguish fact from fiction.
      You can even learn a lot about bookkeeping, accounts, share dealing, carpentry and other trades, sewing, design and a host of other occupations from yt.

    • @njd4291
      @njd4291 4 роки тому

      Don't ever repeat that.

  • @jodevonshirenz
    @jodevonshirenz 2 роки тому +2

    Honestly, if science was like this in school... so many more of us wouldve stayed engaged.

  • @Rahularyan-007
    @Rahularyan-007 4 роки тому +8

    3:40 Its called CHHUYI MUYI in local language in India it means A touch down plant.

  • @cheesenipspartymix
    @cheesenipspartymix 5 років тому +45

    6:12, not true, the trap doesn’t die when it opens and closes a bunch of times. It just becomes a normal leaf and acts like one, and can’t function as a trap. This is because the turgor pressure which opens and closes the traps deforms the cells to the point where they just can’t conform their shape any longer.
    Also, even when traps are closed by triggering enough hairs, they will still open later on unless the hairs are triggered multiple times while the trap is closed, which is how it detects a struggling insect. When feeding traps manually, they have to be massaged so the trigger hairs are stimulated enough for the trap to not open up again, simulating living prey.
    The purpose of this is simple: a rain drop hitting the plant hard enough can cause a trap to close, and rain is common in the bogs they grow in. Also, many insects may escape too, either from being too large, not fitting enough of their body in, or being a slimy bug like a slug or worm
    Very smart plants I would say.

    • @iamankitajena
      @iamankitajena 5 років тому

      I think he meant the insect dies not the trap

    • @user-sw1wq8lh2w
      @user-sw1wq8lh2w 4 роки тому +1

      @@iamankitajena he meant the trap ceases to function, but said "dies"

    • @karlkeegan8392
      @karlkeegan8392 4 роки тому

      Very good Wendy I used to fit doors made from Douglas Fir.

    • @technofeeling2462
      @technofeeling2462 4 роки тому

      Smart? I think it is just evolution and the plants that did not behave like that just died out

  • @mari-louiseapsey2665
    @mari-louiseapsey2665 4 роки тому +17

    Totally amazing! Really enjoyed this presentation about plants. They have their own, magnificent intelligence that they radiate, we’re learning and discovering so much from them everyday. Talk to them, care for them and send them your heart’s good energy, and in return, they will release their oxygen that we humans need to survive. Keep up the good work.🌿🌺

  • @kyratawney7591
    @kyratawney7591 2 роки тому +7

    I would challenge that depression one. My friends had two sibling plants (babies from one of their aunt's plants) and one of their roommates knocked one of the plants over and didn't pick it up until my friends got back to the apt. In that time the plant that was still on the table had moved all it's vines toward the plant on the floor. When the plant that fell died from the shock and because it had been on the floor all day, it's sibling plant also started to wither and it didn't start coming back to life until they bought some other plants and put them all next to each other. If a plant can start to wither and die because it's alone and only perks back up when it's given friends, that says to me depression and mourning. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    • @Arianita2001
      @Arianita2001 Рік тому +1

      Damn, that's very interesting. In my family we believe in us being energy, that includes animals, insects and plants. It'd be very nice if they indeed could sense and react, understanding in a very primal way what is happening, like "good feeling", "bad feeling". Very cool, I'll continue to say nice things to my little cactus 😂

  • @surfingwithsnakes
    @surfingwithsnakes 6 років тому +7

    I have a sensitive plant just like that, it just came up on day in on of my pots so I separated it. It’s really cool to see it move when you touch it, it’s a favorite when guests come over because they like to interact with it.

    • @Aaron565
      @Aaron565 6 років тому +1

      Its mostly a negative reaction and probably causes undue stress to trigger it fwi

    • @lilaclizard4504
      @lilaclizard4504 6 років тому +5

      If you really want to impress your guests, try to get a second plant (put a branch into the ground or tie a bag of soil around it & it will likely produce roots & be able to be separated from the parent plant) & then train one plant & not the other. Scientists did this, they dropped the plants repeatedly from a low height until the plants learnt they weren't going to get hurt & stopped reacting to the drop. They remembered their training for over a month!

    • @boneanchor45
      @boneanchor45 6 років тому +2

      Lilac Lizard Do you have a link to this experiment? It makes me curious!

    • @lilaclizard4504
      @lilaclizard4504 6 років тому +2

      BoneAnchor, I can't find the link I had before :( but I found a new one, ua-cam.com/video/mFWHT6WxyTc/v-deo.html looks like it's for kids, but it explains the experiment. I can't find the link to the paper right now either sorry & no link on that video :(

    • @Sacheen
      @Sacheen 6 років тому +1

      Aaron565pwns I agree we need plant rights

  • @sekharchakrabarty3333
    @sekharchakrabarty3333 6 років тому +22

    Mr Gage should have mentioned about Jagadish chandra bose who invented crescograph which recorded plant growth and had theorised nervous system of plants(1926)

    • @againstthemodernworld3253
      @againstthemodernworld3253 5 років тому +1

      Dr. Bose definitely contributed- but it was 100 years after other people started the experiments in Europe (also where Bose was educated)

    • @ashokyanniyavar2106
      @ashokyanniyavar2106 5 років тому +1

      Sekhar Chakrabarty thank you sir for feed back's nof the Indian scientific researching.

    • @DKMKartha108
      @DKMKartha108 3 роки тому

      धत्ते भरं कुसुमपत्र फलावलीनां
      घर्मव्यथां वहति शीतभवां रुजां च /
      यो देहमर्पयति चाऽन्य सुखस्य हेतोः
      तस्मै वदान्यगुरवे तरवे नमस्ते //
      dhattē bharaṁ kusumapatra phalāvalīnāṁ
      gharmavyathāṁ vahati śītabhavāṁ rujāṁ ca /
      yō dēhamarpayati cā’nya sukhasya hētōḥ
      tasmai vadānyaguravē taravē namastē //
      I bow my head in respect to you, O, Tree
      You are my guru
      In how you generously bear the weight of leaves and flowers and fruits
      For the sake of others,
      How you bear the hardship of the summer heat
      And the pains of the winter afflictions,
      For the sake of others,
      And how you offer your body and life at the end
      For the well-being of others.
      Jagannaatha Pandita (India, 15th Century C.E.)

  • @rajeevsingh6734
    @rajeevsingh6734 5 років тому +364

    This experiment were done before by jagdish Chandra Bose hE was an Indian.A great scientist from india

    • @Aurora..Borealis
      @Aurora..Borealis 5 років тому +29

      Yes! Very true. Chandra was a great man. I believe BBC rated him one of the greatest Bengali of all time.

    • @Aurora..Borealis
      @Aurora..Borealis 5 років тому +36

      @@rexrig7109 racist ignoramous.... No one was claiming credit for it! This was about educating kids. Maybe if you had some further eduction you'd learn that JCB is and has always been credited for this discovery and more......

    • @chumleyk
      @chumleyk 5 років тому +6

      He was made a Sir and studied at Oxford and Cambridge.

    • @philipsb5900
      @philipsb5900 5 років тому +14

      Now comes Indians and say "he have copied this theory from vedas and we are the one to know it first"... 😂😂🤣

    • @REX-iw9qr
      @REX-iw9qr 5 років тому +7

      Don't bring this bullshit here ok who asked you about the credit ..
      Cant you appreciate his work ...

  • @DeeEll86442
    @DeeEll86442 4 роки тому +2

    I have a Mimosa Putica (also called the touch-me-not) plant and my friends freak out every time they see it move. I played a joke on one of my friends one day and while I was talking to them I brushed up against the plant and it moved. They saw it and yelled “ your plant just moved” I told them they were crazy. But they kept insisting it moved. I finally gave in and told them about the plant 🌱.
    In case anyone is interested in growing one of these, the seeds for this plant can be purchased on Amazon for a few dollars. They come in different colors and the also grow pretty purple flowers. Happy gardening everyone😁👍Dee

    • @Aktivator23
      @Aktivator23 4 роки тому

      Here's a live demo showing the action of the Mimosa plant. ua-cam.com/video/pvBlSFVmoaw/v-deo.html

  • @danielsanichiban
    @danielsanichiban 6 років тому +305

    Dr Jagadish Chandra Bose discovered and taught this in the late 1800s. Strange that it's still not widely understood.

    • @Prashant07581
      @Prashant07581 6 років тому

      Dan ftgyyy

    • @zeus1082
      @zeus1082 6 років тому +25

      Dan Elleson electric cars was invented in 1800.but jus popping into market.They introduce technology which gives profit to them

    • @jameslandon4126
      @jameslandon4126 6 років тому +8

      That's true about the profit but the early electric cars and trucks were just not practical because battery technology wasn't that developed and they were not efficient enough. That is the main reason they were not popular.

    • @zeus1082
      @zeus1082 6 років тому +8

      Jim Garrison even petrol and diesel based autombiles wete not that effective those days.Did'nt theey improve the effectiveness and bought it to 38% which is still low.

    • @ENT_DrShivaamKes
      @ENT_DrShivaamKes 6 років тому

      ua-cam.com/video/4ImqC7O0oCg/v-deo.html

  • @leveljoe
    @leveljoe 6 років тому +18

    Plants can also recognize weather another that has entered its root system is family or not.
    If the plants are related, they continue to grow as if the other doesn't exist.
    If they are not related, they will grow in a way that will attempt to deprive the other of nutrition.

    • @leveljoe
      @leveljoe 6 років тому +1

      Just Jess when they are competitive for scarce recourses they do.

    • @polyscient
      @polyscient 6 років тому +2

      All sorts of interesting adaptations have evolved. Remember people, every trait you possess serves the purpose of replicating DNA molecules possessing some generic pattern similarities (aka genes) to your own. Even if it means killing you. That's why people die with old age. We haven't evolved enough to remain useful to our offspring for long periods of time yet.

    • @jt659
      @jt659 6 років тому +2

      Those are allelophathic plants. Their roots excrete growth inhibitors that affect some plants more than others. Basically it allows fewer plants a chance to get the nutrients their roots use. Walnut is one of these. You can look up lists of plants that can handle being planted near them. I think Mulbery is one.

    • @mihajlor2004
      @mihajlor2004 5 років тому +1

      Plants arent so peaceful huh

    • @donkeykong4983
      @donkeykong4983 3 роки тому

      ✝️

  • @dhananjaya.mishra
    @dhananjaya.mishra 6 років тому +8

    i just remembered Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose this time. People might not getting the point this is not an entertainment this is a very important step in the neuroscience which can be shaped into an advance science in various ways.

    • @wanderingwonderer5442
      @wanderingwonderer5442 5 років тому

      Dhananjaya Mishra
      J C Bose was a Bengali!

    • @DKMKartha108
      @DKMKartha108 3 роки тому +1

      धत्ते भरं कुसुमपत्र फलावलीनां
      घर्मव्यथां वहति शीतभवां रुजां च /
      यो देहमर्पयति चाऽन्य सुखस्य हेतोः
      तस्मै वदान्यगुरवे तरवे नमस्ते //
      dhattē bharaṁ kusumapatra phalāvalīnāṁ
      gharmavyathāṁ vahati śītabhavāṁ rujāṁ ca /
      yō dēhamarpayati cā’nya sukhasya hētōḥ
      tasmai vadānyaguravē taravē namastē //
      I bow my head in respect to you, O, Tree
      You are my guru
      In how you generously bear the weight of leaves and flowers and fruits
      For the sake of others,
      How you bear the hardship of the summer heat
      And the pains of the winter afflictions,
      For the sake of others,
      And how you offer your body and life at the end
      For the well-being of others.
      Jagannaatha Pandita (India, 15th Century C.E.)

  • @AyushSingh-js3rf
    @AyushSingh-js3rf 3 роки тому +2

    Who else thought that count was clickbait just to realise it isn't
    UA-cam is the best place to gain Knowledge it has more knowledge than your average school

  • @lazyjesus6573
    @lazyjesus6573 6 років тому +42

    Cannabis is the most wonderful plant in the world, many an interesting conversations, trippy ideas and far out words of wisdom have I had with that wonderful plant.

    • @InanisNihil
      @InanisNihil 6 років тому +3

      and they led to u raiding ur parents fridge for food.. xD

    • @alexanderknight8421
      @alexanderknight8421 5 років тому

      Lazy Jesus that plant probably counts too man

    • @felcas
      @felcas 5 років тому

      Cannabis 🤭🤭🤭 try hayauasca

    • @sharikaraman5896
      @sharikaraman5896 5 років тому

      Lazy Jesus ?! lol, may the plant control you completely ...lol

    • @SomethingSeemsOff
      @SomethingSeemsOff 5 років тому

      Had to you feel about Psilocybin? (To be fair, mushrooms are not plants.)

  • @eraven1982
    @eraven1982 6 років тому +7

    The very end was incredible! This reminds me of that 70's documentary "The Secret Life of Plants" but obviously a bit more info/updated! I loved this TED Talk SOOO MUCH!!!! 🤓

  • @davidarundel6187
    @davidarundel6187 4 роки тому +3

    In the 1970's, a book - Super Nature - was published, with information relevant to this discussion.
    A few years before that, a group in Scotland, started a garden - The Findhorn Gardens - which did something similar.
    At Findhorn, they spoke nicely & with kindness to the plants in the garden, which provided the gardeners, with unexpected results, as the plants produced an abundance of 'food', in bigger than normal sizes.
    I, used this information in my last flat, which when I moved in, had no curtains, or carpet, & looked out onto a carpark + a bunch of backyards.
    The widows, were dressed with plants - baby ones - which were given all that they needed to flourish, including, kind words, regarding their growth & beauty. Over time, they became a joy, to some of the neighbours, other neighbours, whom the landlords staff, had given a set of master keys to, repeatedly burgled my flat, looking for Canabis plants, & narcking me to the cops. No police, ever came calling, in the 3 years of being narcked on.
    Any neighbours &, or their visitors, who appeared sad, on entering the property, who saw my Windows, imeadiately had a change of mein, being seen to get happy, on sighting the widow, which for most of the year, had flowers, in abundance, on the plants.
    The neighbours & few freinds that were invited in, were more relaxed & happier, than when they came in.
    Now I'm in another flat, and only a few of the plants have survived the move. The ones that survived, continue to out perform, similar plants that some folks in the wider neighbourhood, have.
    I, love my plants & appreciate the seasonal blooms that get produced.
    Any "wild" plan, that' leaves are needed for for medicinal purposes, is asked for its leaves or flowers, and is also thanked, for their gift, and they are apologised to, for hurting then, when the leaves or flowers, are picked.

  • @MariaFernandazz
    @MariaFernandazz 4 роки тому +3

    i'm from brazil, i remember visiting my grandparents farm when i was very young and discovering these mimosa plant. I would go to the place where it was everyday for all the ten days i stayed there and thinking it was the coolest thing alive and i couldn't forget about it for over a decade but i never managed to find out its name

  • @euchrisssssssss
    @euchrisssssssss 6 років тому +90

    There's a very good documentary on the same subject called "What Plants Talk About". It's avaliable here on youtube

  • @lightningMcqueen5
    @lightningMcqueen5 5 років тому +104

    ഞമ്മളെ തൊട്ടാവാടി 😃
    In kerala , india mimosa is known as "thottavaadi" which means wilt on touching . Portuguese merchants brought it from brazil to india .

  • @penguinzomby
    @penguinzomby 5 років тому +59

    The Venus Flytrap counts stimuli before closing in order to compensate for rain drops

    • @Tooncow2
      @Tooncow2 5 років тому

      What? How do you figure that?

    • @quelorepario
      @quelorepario 5 років тому +3

      Or any false positive

    • @swaranbains8326
      @swaranbains8326 5 років тому +3

      Or requires more action potentials to open the gates to move

  • @raian9325
    @raian9325 4 роки тому +2

    My school's second playground which is 300 meter big. I have founded soo many of this plant . And I have touched it and it reacts very quickly....Awesome .
    I feel super lucky to experience and touch this plant in real life...💖💖

  • @americanknight2070
    @americanknight2070 6 років тому +95

    This gets me thinking about how easy it probably would be for us to miss Actual alien life

    • @walmartian
      @walmartian 6 років тому +1

      we need to nuke all planets in case alien plants are hostile

    • @benjaminpierce8835
      @benjaminpierce8835 6 років тому +10

      Turns out the moon is actually an egg

    • @polyscient
      @polyscient 6 років тому +5

      "we" as a species have not missed alien life. Our officials and military are well aware of and in contact with it. "We" as members of the general population of our civilization have not been allowed the knowledge of extraterrestrial intelligence's existence due to the threat that knowledge poses to the mechanisms of power they hold. Primarily religion and military supremacy.

    • @victorschneider5125
      @victorschneider5125 6 років тому

      so are these officials american or australian or chinese or something?

    • @iwanttodie9653
      @iwanttodie9653 5 років тому +3

      @@polyscient Wow you actually believe that conspiracy theory are you like 9?

  • @deenalaykie5260
    @deenalaykie5260 6 років тому +26

    the Mamosa is a very shallow rooting tree. It also is not very strong. I propose the reason is to dump rainwater to keep from toppling or breaking branches.

    • @br00talcabbage64
      @br00talcabbage64 5 років тому +2

      Deena Laykie brilliant conclusion

    • @minhal_lhr
      @minhal_lhr 5 років тому

      Deena Laykie ... that makes perfect sense.

  • @fusionsportdaily1650
    @fusionsportdaily1650 5 років тому +11

    I never learned this in school. School was such a waste of time here is America. They only teach you their agenda and what THEY want you to learn. This is awesome!

  • @NinjaOrchids
    @NinjaOrchids 7 місяців тому

    I have a deep connection with my orchids. They do most of the talking and while in many cases, feel as though i understand what they are talking about, every day i am learning another bit of vocabulary. Orchids are patient teachers! 😊

  • @fanriadho
    @fanriadho 6 років тому +11

    I'm an electrical engineer, i was LOL when he's said about ground joke 4:16

  • @psymetric3684
    @psymetric3684 5 років тому +7

    Mamosa (or family) is also found in south east Asia.. because I found many while travelling and I love this shy plant 😋

  • @empowermph
    @empowermph 4 роки тому +16

    also watch the documentary film "The Secret Life of Plants"
    ..they do have emotions, & they do communicate with each other

    • @voice2skull.
      @voice2skull. 3 роки тому

      I LLLLLOVE that doc!!

    • @holyramadhan1889
      @holyramadhan1889 3 роки тому +2

      I'm confuse what should i eat? I dont want human kill animals cause clearly animals feel pain and have emotion, fair, sad etc. But after know plants also feel pain and have emotion too😭 i feel guilty😭

    • @anjagalan6905
      @anjagalan6905 3 роки тому +2

      @@holyramadhan1889 some animals and plants are made for food by God for humans. Don't feel guilty.

    • @Masda.X
      @Masda.X 3 роки тому

      @@holyramadhan1889 God made some of them for us. Do not feel guilty. They feel happy when we eat them.

    • @holyramadhan1889
      @holyramadhan1889 3 роки тому +2

      @@Masda.X if they feel happy, why goats, sheep, cows, fish and all animals run away and revolt when human caught killed them.if you think they were happy so you can change your position become goat and you were slaughtered and human eat you. plz dont think that they are happy, that's bullshit, this full of fearness, sad, and painfull😢😭😭😭

  • @trainwreck237
    @trainwreck237 4 роки тому +2

    If you could trigger a plants motional output with a different plants input (like they showed at the end), then imagine just having a hallway of plants which is electrically connected to a single plant, then when you put an input to that plant, all of the plants in the hallway react, or maybe imagine having a contraption which on/off button is a plant.

  • @fulcrumindicate
    @fulcrumindicate 5 років тому +12

    What would be interesting is the internal and external communication between gut flora of the same and different type. Great video!

  • @user-mj4or8sh3g
    @user-mj4or8sh3g 5 років тому +37

    ITS CALLED "MAKAHIYA" IN OUR COUNTRY! 😂 ITS MY FAVOURITE PLANT SINCE I WAS KID! Makahiya means Shy. so its a shy shy plant! lol.

    • @elcothelosen3621
      @elcothelosen3621 5 років тому

      great , i know ferns when you touch it, its leafs jump everywhere and start new ferns in days...it reminds me of that move..

    • @allenalinea9424
      @allenalinea9424 5 років тому +3

      Ito yung hinahanap kong comment hahahaha

    • @yahyah1453
      @yahyah1453 4 роки тому +1

      Haha nag comments din ako nito

    • @roellavaro3612
      @roellavaro3612 4 роки тому +1

      Batang 90s

    • @guitaristxpicado
      @guitaristxpicado 4 роки тому +1

      What language?

  • @g_malaaycora7140
    @g_malaaycora7140 5 років тому +8

    3:31 we called that plant makahiya in Philippines. Makahiya means "shy". we called it that way because they say it get shy when you touched it so it'll close the leaves. We used to play that plant
    Sorry for bad English😂

    • @excelmaths4889
      @excelmaths4889 5 років тому

      jiminie park well in Nepal we say 'Lajjawati' that means shy 😂😂

  • @ParadigmRabbit
    @ParadigmRabbit 2 роки тому +2

    Cleve Backster, now deceased, was a pioneer in the area of investigating the possibility of plants having more consciousness and ability than people then thought. He connected them to lie detectors. Look him up. Very interesting!

  • @100pmistry
    @100pmistry 5 років тому +5

    To anyone who's going to make a crude comment against veganism.
    Every single food source is derived from something living, and we need to eat living beings to live of-course, but the question here is "sentience". A plant doesn't have a nervous system or pain receptors, or a brain, that's why there classified as "non-sentient". Although, they can react to stimulus or have an environmental response, but that doesn't mean they can feel pain, such as when UV sunlight hits your skin you stimulate the production of melanin. Hence, this is why we should eat the living beings that don't feel pain or have sentience rather than the living beings that feel pain and emotion, which have sentience, unless of-course for survival. But hypothetically if we new that plants could feel pain, there would still be an argument to eat the plants instead of the animals, since it takes a lot more plants to raise an animal, and then kill it. We would save a lot more plants if we went to the direct source rather than filtering it through the animals. Nevertheless, there will always be a harm as a result of agriculture, such as, moles , snakes , and lizards when they dig up the soil and plant their crops. The majority of crops on earth are grown for livestock consumption, thus killing more habitats to grow said crops and killing more insects and small animals that come into crop lands. Veganism isn't about creating a utopia, it's about mitigating the damage as practically possible, and that comes down to the purchases of the individual consumers.

    • @ChristianGeske-yn3mr
      @ChristianGeske-yn3mr 5 років тому

      It’s human instinct to eat meat for a reason u can’t tell someone they are wrong because they accept that something has to die for them to eat that chicken feels pain before I eat it and I’m glad the sacrifice was made it’s as simple as that

  • @Pamelaandjoulepii
    @Pamelaandjoulepii 5 років тому +264

    WOW!!! That is so incredible!!!so why not hug a tree ? But maybe ask the tree first 🌳

    • @jacobsparry8525
      @jacobsparry8525 5 років тому +27

      Only you do have to worry if the tree does answer back verbally.

    • @Pamelaandjoulepii
      @Pamelaandjoulepii 5 років тому +12

      JacobsParry it depends on what the tree has to say 👍

    • @jacobsparry8525
      @jacobsparry8525 5 років тому +5

      @@Pamelaandjoulepii
      Ha Ha Ha... acshully I haved other worser things to worked on to geted right. I do liked sciences because all ways the answer is the same. People are way very diffrenter and dangerouser.

    • @HumbelPie
      @HumbelPie 5 років тому

      And smell its neck 😂

    • @ebadkhan5963
      @ebadkhan5963 5 років тому

      That is sexual assault. or should I say tree assault touching private parts without consent 😅

  • @jacobsparry8525
    @jacobsparry8525 5 років тому +5

    We did these experiments on plants in my high school biology class in which we attached what were called psycho-galvanometer sensors to philodendrons leaves and place 2 plants in a room a few feet apart. Only 1 plant had the psycho galvanometer attached to it and it was connected to drum recorder like what was used for measuring earth quake strength. We then sent a series of students in to the room which sing to the plants, talk to them nicely, and some did nothing. But, one student walked in and went to the second plant and pulled it out of its pot and ripped it to shreds. Now there was a response by the other plant but the real response came later. Someone came in and cleaned up the mess and then the remaining plant was left on its own for about 9 hours.
    After 9 hours the students went in the room 1 by 1 and there was no response until the kid who ripped up the other plant walked in. At that point the readings on the galvanometer went off the chart and continued until that kid left the room. Plant communication established.

    • @horsesinheaven1364
      @horsesinheaven1364 5 років тому +1

      JacobsParry I took biology in university, switching out of genetics. So I’m not a total stranger. I like to imagine that I was responsible for the change in her health.
      We had a barn built, having to cut down many trees in the forest. I love trees and forced the workers to leave certain trees, which meant more work for them having to then work around those trees. There was a huge old oak, I insisted NOT be cut, I don’t care how much flooring I could get from the oak tree. Her roots were damaged by the huge machines and after several storms ...she was listing ...and leaning over. I still insisted she be left in place. I felt so sad for that giant oak, she’s seen so many seasons...and now she’s dying.
      Soooo,
      I went and hugged her often, over the years. That ancient oak is still standing, although, still leaning.
      And now, after 25 years of hugging, she has begun to produce much more leaves and now, the last few years, so many ACORNS!
      The grey, black and red squirrels have buried those acorns and now, I have several young sapling oaks scattered around the acreage here in Canada.

    • @jacobsparry8525
      @jacobsparry8525 5 років тому +2

      @@horsesinheaven1364
      Ever did you put ined any Jobe's tree spikes for her/him?? We did put ined some ofed Jobe's ever greened spikes at ours pines and the ones we put them arounded ined 1 1/2 years haved geted 3 feet higher thened the others. Just you do pound them or pushed them into the ground out around where at are the roots mostly and that is all. Then whened does it rain they do slowly feed the roots more and more and the trees do geted stronger and stronger.
      just looked them uped on line. They are called Jobe's trees and shrubs spikes

    • @horsesinheaven1364
      @horsesinheaven1364 5 років тому

      JacobsParry oh, that’s a great idea! Thank you! I will buy some, I promise, next time I drive into town.🙋🏼👍🏻

    • @jacobsparry8525
      @jacobsparry8525 5 років тому +1

      @@horsesinheaven1364
      You are welcomed. I am sorry about how cand I writed. Whened I was at 11 my #23 fosters father turned to be a vile pedo and tryd to do stuff and whened did I fighted he beat the craps out ofed me withed a big buckle belt and cracked my head and I geted a TBI and others stuff. I did haved to haved a brains operation but still do I haved aphasias brains damaging. It does maked me muted and I haved troubles to geted words right. Whened my room mate is at here he does writed for me ond here but he is goned.
      Thank you fore not making fund of it as some at here do a lot.

  • @DavidCraig-go1zv
    @DavidCraig-go1zv Рік тому +1

    There was an experiment about 50 years ago where 3 plants were isolated in a room. One at a time, one of 3 people entered the room, but one of the people was instructed to rip one plant out of its pot and destroy it. An eec type device was hooked up to a surviving plant and the people were brought into the room one at a time and asked if they destroyed it. All 3 were told to dent it, but when the guilty party denied it, the graph went wild. I don't recall the origin of the story, possibly Reader's Digest, but I never forgot it.

    • @xtremeyoylecake
      @xtremeyoylecake 11 місяців тому

      Idk if it’s true, but it seems very fascinating, also if it was, it appears the plants were probably angry that the humans lied about their friend being killed

  • @elenabodna5719
    @elenabodna5719 5 років тому +111

    The Navi was right in avatar. They can communicate 😂

    • @shelli-ann9369
      @shelli-ann9369 4 роки тому +1

      They can...

    • @ClosedProductions
      @ClosedProductions 4 роки тому +6

      The largest organism ever known is a fungus that spans miles, all interconnected through underground rhizome structures. It's in Oregon.

    • @JosephAng
      @JosephAng 4 роки тому +3

      @@ClosedProductions I wonder what those mushrooms can tell us.

  • @giselecampos9666
    @giselecampos9666 4 роки тому +5

    Wow!!! This is soooo amazing! We still have so much to learn about plants. What an amazing kingdom!

  • @Roncass4
    @Roncass4 5 років тому +5

    That was one of the wildest demonstrations I’ve seen. It’s fascinating, electricity is virtually everywhere. I am thinking that what we all know is a “Soul” is pure energy, or what I think I of, as our essence....

    • @zams7146
      @zams7146 5 років тому +1

      Of course!! Keep asking questions and your reach a incredible point and an understanding of reality.

    • @zams7146
      @zams7146 5 років тому

      E=mc2

    • @Roncass4
      @Roncass4 5 років тому +1

      E=ms2 is basically all relative...

  • @daydream1534
    @daydream1534 4 роки тому +1

    FOR ANYONE WHO WANTS TO KNOW HOW THIS HAPPENS
    It happens becoz of potassium ion movement. When the external touch stimulus is applied, or any such disturbances then some voltage gated channel opens. Potassium ion moves away from the disturbed part and because of the ion, since of its solute potential and change in osmotic concentration water also move out of the disturbed site (here leaf) . So when the concentration of water decrease in leaf, cells are no longer turgid, they become flaccid and shrink. So lthe leaf curls up and close.
    Similar kind of mechanism for closing and opening of stomata. Potassium ion movement.
    In case of humans, when external stimulus is applied the sodium ions move inside the axon from extracelluar fluid, which causes the depolarisation of the axolemma. And the charges are conducted through saltation, until they reach the end of neuron, the teldendria. For further conduction to another neuron some neurotransmitters are released into the synapse, and the next neuron dendrites have receptor for this
    Any science student here 👦📖🎒

  • @daniellekenehan852
    @daniellekenehan852 6 років тому +5

    This is why I've always loved Venus flytraps

    • @walmartian
      @walmartian 6 років тому +1

      i hate them and i hate all plants i always carry round up with me i kill any plant i see

  • @lilaclizard4504
    @lilaclizard4504 6 років тому +9

    For those of you who say it's not the same thing/they can't feel pain without an actual human style nervous system & brain, just remember that every organ plants have is different to animals, yet they still manage the same functions eg "digest food", "breathe", "hear", transport nutrients & gasses they need, attack invading organisms etc

    • @thomasi.4981
      @thomasi.4981 6 років тому +2

      Lilac Lizard They don't have a brain to tell them "This sensation is a bad one!" so they can't feel pain. Hearing? Sound causes particles to reverberate, compress and expand around each other. Sure they can react to sound, but they can't reason it out. The plants react to sounds for the same reason my tissues (or anything in the house for that matter, including my eardrums) vibrate when I play super loud music.

    • @lilaclizard4504
      @lilaclizard4504 6 років тому +2

      Thomas they're believed to have multiple small brain nodes behind each root tip, all networked together. As for sensation being "a bad one", more than that, if a bug eats a leaf, they can "taste" the saliva of the bug & identify what bug it is & then send out pheromones to call for predators (bird or insect depending on what bug it is) that will eat that specific species of bug
      Mother trees in a forest will also collect sunlight & "feed" it's energy to their babies. If they have enough, they'll feed other tree's babies too, but they will identify which are THEIR offspring & send most of the nutrients to them (studied & confirmed by putting a plastic bag over a branch & releasing radioactive carbon into the air in it & then reading with a gigacounter where the carbon ends up.
      Sibling seedlings will also identify kin & strangers & support kin growth while actively suppressing non-kin growth, SO many examples out there of plants exhibiting behaviours that are used to test for sentience in animals

    • @thomasi.4981
      @thomasi.4981 6 років тому +1

      Lilac Lizard I see statements, statements, statements, statements. Where is the why, the how, and the who said so, and the how many times, and the what species, and so on? You know, information?

    • @thomasi.4981
      @thomasi.4981 6 років тому +1

      Lilac Lizard Actually, I think I'm asking the wrong questions. My disbelief is about the "sentience" that you seem to be projecting on the plants, not about all the fascinating features of plant physiology I am not aware of.
      Touch, texture and chemical detection, along with appropriate reactions does tell me the neurological structure in plants can be fairly complicated, but it still doesn't tell me the plants can suffer. When I asked about plants getting a "bad" signal alerting them, the same way our pain is used, you said "More than that..." and went on to talk about their "tasting" as if that backs up your point about pain somehow. Your assumption must be that taste is a more advanced neural feature than pain. I can teach a computer to analyse chemicals and react to the results, but I don't know how to make the computer savor and enjoy those sensations (enjoyment/pleasure) or be nauseated and hurt (discomfort/pain)

    • @lilaclizard4504
      @lilaclizard4504 6 років тому +2

      "When I asked about plants getting a "bad" signal alerting them" no, you said you didn't think plants could tell "This sensation is a bad one!", so I explained what plants were able to do and identify with sensations they receive. Pain is a mechanism for protection. Evolution suggests that living organisms won't respond to pain unless there is an evolutionary advantage to them in doing so, so in order to ask the question as to if they will respond to pain, we first need to look at the background information & identify if it would be useful for them.
      We see that if they can "feel" a bug has taken a bite out of them, they are able to respond to this with a wide range of different & selective responses, so from this we can see that it would be evolutionary useful for them to develop the ability to detect this has occurred and to develop some sort of stress to this that would cause them to want to make it stop.
      Contrast this with a short living insect like a cockroach or cricket. If we rip a leg off an animal, many animals will avoid using the limb & protect the wound, therefore allowing it to heal, increasing their chance of survival so that they can live on to reproduce. In short lived insects, their lifespan is so short that if they rest and protect the injury until it is healed, this will take so long that they will now be dead of old age before they can reproduce. Consequently, it is evolutionary negative for them to develop a desire to rest the wound, as such, when you rip the leg off a cricket, it will pull away/try to stop you from removing it's limbs, but once it's gone, it will carry on completely as normal, with no signs of pain present, as pain does not enhance their survival in the same way it does in plants or longer lived animals.
      So all of this means plants have an evolutionary reason to feel pain. They have also had a significantly longer period of evolution than any current animal species on the planet and their dna suggests they have used this extensively. So the question we should then ask is if they had evolved this ability, as seems likely from an evolutionary perspective, would we recognise it/how could we establish it? So I guess that's my question to you, how do you think we could test plants for this ability? What would you catagorise as proof of this & on the side note to this you raise of sentience, what would you define as sentience?

  • @campingteddy9297
    @campingteddy9297 3 роки тому +28

    Someone show this video to the vegan teacher...

    • @Anonymous-cn6zl
      @Anonymous-cn6zl 4 місяці тому +2

      What's your goal then?

    • @Anonymous-cn6zl
      @Anonymous-cn6zl 4 місяці тому +5

      To make your vegan teacher eat meat that came from a more conscious creatures that can experience pain and fear as we humans do?

    • @pragyaupadhyay7801
      @pragyaupadhyay7801 3 місяці тому +2

      See the whole video first

  • @dylanlafreniere3479
    @dylanlafreniere3479 3 роки тому +1

    Sometime the most obvious question can produce not so obvious answers, I’m addicted to learning the most obscure information.

  • @johnw6389
    @johnw6389 5 років тому +23

    I hope you gave the Venus trap a fly!!!.... :o)

  • @4_andikoputrapratamak.670
    @4_andikoputrapratamak.670 5 років тому +47

    That Mimosa plant is called as "Putri Malu" or Shy Princess in Indonesia, CMIIW

    • @alexds8452
      @alexds8452 4 роки тому

      That's cute, but I don't want to promote the idea that to be a Princess girls have to be passive/shy! For example, why isn't it called a shy PRINCE? ... Exactly!

    • @TheGiRiGi
      @TheGiRiGi 4 роки тому +9

      @@alexds8452 I know where this is going. But, no, thanks. We do fine here.

    • @madeariartha2546
      @madeariartha2546 4 роки тому

      that because her shyness is big (kemaluannya gede)

    • @Tirtha-Raj-Ghimire
      @Tirtha-Raj-Ghimire 3 роки тому

      As well as in Nepal also.

    • @hulyan8944
      @hulyan8944 3 роки тому

      Philippines: Makahiya
      Also means "a very shy person"

  • @shibasishroysarkar1539
    @shibasishroysarkar1539 5 років тому +7

    Absolutely marvelous; never knew such communication btw plants can happen.

  • @emmynspires1719
    @emmynspires1719 2 роки тому +1

    Greg Gage. I so much love the stuffs this guy is putting out to the world.
    Me personally, after giving it a thought, I think that the facts that plants have evolved quite differently from us doesn't mean that they are unintelligent. I think they do creative things too. And they are really intelligent in ways which are still to understand..

  • @evilkidm93b
    @evilkidm93b 5 років тому +11

    I love plants, this made me smile.

    • @jsmyth024
      @jsmyth024 5 років тому +1

      Dude, me too. I've always been a gardener, but for some reason, this year I have absolutely fallen in love with my plants. They're like family. Now when one is in trouble, instead of just trying to save it for monetary reasons or like I'm solving a puzzle, I feel badly for the plant and it's almost like I'm trying to heal one of my pets or something. #animism #weirdo

    • @evilkidm93b
      @evilkidm93b 5 років тому +1

      @@jsmyth024 I feel the same way!

    • @johnwilson3740
      @johnwilson3740 4 роки тому +1

      @@jsmyth024 I think after that, you feel even more at peace in your garden because your plants emanate vibes of gratitude to you whenever you're there. They have a soul.

    • @DKMKartha108
      @DKMKartha108 3 роки тому

      धत्ते भरं कुसुमपत्र फलावलीनां
      घर्मव्यथां वहति शीतभवां रुजां च /
      यो देहमर्पयति चाऽन्य सुखस्य हेतोः
      तस्मै वदान्यगुरवे तरवे नमस्ते //
      dhattē bharaṁ kusumapatra phalāvalīnāṁ
      gharmavyathāṁ vahati śītabhavāṁ rujāṁ ca /
      yō dēhamarpayati cā’nya sukhasya hētōḥ
      tasmai vadānyaguravē taravē namastē //
      I bow my head in respect to you, O, Tree
      You are my guru
      In how you generously bear the weight of leaves and flowers and fruits
      For the sake of others,
      How you bear the hardship of the summer heat
      And the pains of the winter afflictions,
      For the sake of others,
      And how you offer your body and life at the end
      For the well-being of others.
      Jagannaatha Pandita (India, 15th Century C.E.)

  • @TerryMcGearyScotland
    @TerryMcGearyScotland 3 роки тому +5

    Wow! Amazing. A great explanation and demonstration. As a former college biology lecturer, I am well impressed.

  • @EricCole69
    @EricCole69 4 роки тому +93

    I'm getting way too attached to my weed plants lmaoo

    • @gabydewilde
      @gabydewilde 4 роки тому +6

      I've seen that behavior. I wonder who is in charge the human or the plant. It actively controls the humans brain?

    • @h.amz.a2262
      @h.amz.a2262 4 роки тому +5

      @@gabydewilde well u got that right bro, i m quiting today

    • @Iickme
      @Iickme 4 роки тому +1

      Felt that lmao

    • @anattempttomakecontent776
      @anattempttomakecontent776 3 роки тому

      💀💀💀

    • @anattempttomakecontent776
      @anattempttomakecontent776 3 роки тому +1

      @@h.amz.a2262 ur stronger than me bro but stay off if u feel u need to

  • @abbymoore8653
    @abbymoore8653 Рік тому +2

    This is beautiful. I wonder if plants can feel us touching their leaves if they have touch receptors. Wonderful video, thanks for sharing. I was sad no one laughed at the electrical engineering joke that was golden. 😂

  • @brendarua01
    @brendarua01 6 років тому +266

    Cool! Thanks, TED!

    • @TR0Y72
      @TR0Y72 6 років тому

      +

    • @firebirdtactical3333
      @firebirdtactical3333 6 років тому

      Brenda Rua I

    • @รlเ
      @รlเ 6 років тому +2

      Brenda Rua this is interesting experiment there are people who says plants dont actually have brains like us so they are non living but now such experiments completely proves that plants do have sensory systems which responds same way as the other species there much need to understand how the plants sensory system works & it would help in more better understanding of plant life

    • @sorellman
      @sorellman 6 років тому

      His interpretation is often a stretch, which many scientists tend to do because it is appealing to the public. As for "the great Charles Darwin," if you make such claim, you have disqualified yourself as a scientist. Evolution is as much of a hoax as the notion that some kind of god miraculously created the world in six days is.

    • @rafajaw
      @rafajaw 6 років тому +1

      So what is the truth?

  • @stephaniesmith5326
    @stephaniesmith5326 5 років тому +81

    I think, maybe the plant closes down in heavy rainstorms.

    • @cheesenipspartymix
      @cheesenipspartymix 5 років тому +4

      Stephanie Smith they have a second feature which the trap needs to have hairs triggered while its closed (like a struggling bug) or it will open up the next day

    • @WILLYLYNCH.
      @WILLYLYNCH. 5 років тому +3

      @@cheesenipspartymix The other one not the fly trap. We all know why the fly trap closes it's in the name lol.

  • @Zeakthecat
    @Zeakthecat 2 роки тому +3

    the information ive seen on plants early this morning has been stimulating, from watching the mythbusters prove a plant can sense and feel pain, to this ted talk. but it brings on new moral and ethical questions and challenges, and gives me a lot of insight into gardening that i never seen before.
    i might start picking up a old religion from greek times just because of it.

  • @Rock_n_Roll888
    @Rock_n_Roll888 Рік тому +1

    Russian doctors in 70's sliced vegies separated from each other and recorded ecg flactuations prooved telephatic like communication abilities between plants. Its all connected. Question they raised was how one cabbage knows that another is being sliced. Recreate that in studio.

  • @Justin-Outdoors
    @Justin-Outdoors 5 років тому +41

    Turning plants into a series circuit 🤔

  • @TMWriting
    @TMWriting 6 років тому +7

    that is one of the coolest things I have ever seen.

    • @marks8494
      @marks8494 5 років тому

      You need to get out more bro

  • @SoirEkim
    @SoirEkim 6 років тому +6

    Very interesting. Thank you for a whole new awareness regarding plant function. Brings up many questions. I see several suggestions as to why or how listed in the other comments. Lets test those ideas rather than argue about them. I can only get so far by thinking my way through a problem. I'll test my ideas before telling someone they are wrong. For those of you who are children... Don't allow negative comments, regardless of who commented, to stop you from trying to understand and learn from the potentiality beneficial insights shared by those who test and show results.
    Good luck in your findings.

  • @rizal624
    @rizal624 3 роки тому +1

    I did not expect that the plant called "Putri Malu" in Indonesia (Mimosa), which is abundant in the rice fields near the house, is used for this kind of research. Amazing ..

  • @Ndo01
    @Ndo01 6 років тому +15

    Now this is a quality TEDtalk

    • @Q5000
      @Q5000 6 років тому

      Nando N not

    • @CaesarCassius
      @CaesarCassius 5 років тому

      That's because it's more of a visual spectacle than a talk

  • @charliearango3116
    @charliearango3116 5 років тому +5

    It is an unbelievable demonstration !! Great presentation , that's how we should bring the students attention into class.

  • @sleyaraze8916
    @sleyaraze8916 5 років тому +19

    *"I'm tired of drinking!! I wanna chew!!"*

  • @foxylady9110
    @foxylady9110 3 роки тому +2

    I have an orchid that hasn’t flowered for over a year, so I threatened to chuck it out if it didn’t start flowering, I kid you not within a week it grew a stem and at present has 5 beautiful flowers on it, I’ve told it how pleased I am...😁