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Plant Sensory Perception
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The Plant Intelligence Show, with Simon Gilroy
StarTalk·Apr 12, 2025
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Venus flytraps utilize a chemical signaling mechanism to count specific touch inputs before activating their traps.
“If the fly touches the hair again within a time frame about 30 seconds, that then triggers a second reinforcing signal and that triggers the shutting of fat. So in order to get the trap to shut, the plant has to count to two.”
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