{"id":504,"date":"2017-12-12T14:00:52","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T14:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.giannisarcone.com\/wp\/?p=504"},"modified":"2017-12-12T14:00:52","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T14:00:52","slug":"the-plant-that-is-able-to-count-almost-to-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.giannisarcone.com\/wp\/the-plant-that-is-able-to-count-almost-to-five\/","title":{"rendered":"The Plant That Is Able To Count Almost To Five"},"content":{"rendered":"

We already knew birds can count, but what about plants? Is this idea so surrealist? No, it isn\u2019t because research says the carnivorous plant with a suggestive name, Venus Flytrap<\/a><\/em> (also referred to \u2018Dionaea muscipula\u2019), snaps its jaws shut only when the tiny hairs on the surface of the trapping structure formed by two lobes have been stimulated twice within a 20-second window. An additional stimulation primes the trap for digestion. Five stimulations trigger the production of digestive enzymes \u2013 and more additional hairs\u2019 stimulations mean more enzymes.<\/p>\n

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But obviously it isn\u2019t a question of math abilities, but rather a strategy to economize energy in an environment poor in nutrients. In fact, counting the number of pulses is important to the plant to figure out whether it is worthwhile to spend (or not) the energy needed to chomp its prey and digest it.<\/p>\n

Sources<\/u>:
\n\u2013 Smithsonian<\/a><\/strong>.
\n\u2013 The Atlantic<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Related links<\/u>:
\n\u2013 Numberopedia<\/a><\/strong>.
\n\u2013 History of Numbers<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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We already knew birds can count, but what about plants? Is this idea so surrealist? No, it isn\u2019t because research says the carnivorous plant with a suggestive name, Venus Flytrap (also referred to \u2018Dionaea muscipula\u2019), snaps its jaws shut only… Continue Reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,149,14],"tags":[167,166,165],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curiosities","category-nature","category-numbers","tag-counting","tag-plant","tag-venus-flytrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.giannisarcone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.giannisarcone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.giannisarcone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.giannisarcone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.giannisarcone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.giannisarcone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":506,"href":"https:\/\/www.giannisarcone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.giannisarcone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.giannisarcone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.giannisarcone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}